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Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: >> Hi.> > On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 21:13, John Bradford wrote:> > > This spins down the disk(s) when you're just doing do a reboot. That's > > > fairly irritating and could affect reboot times if one has many disks.> > > > I think it is an attempt to force some broken drives to flush their > > cache, but I wonder whether it will simply move the problem from one > > set of broken drives to another :-).> > Yes, they were trying to get caches flushed. If this attempt is > misguided, that's fine. Is there a better way? A couple of thoughts come to mind: a) Don't do it if the user typed reboot - only do it if we're powering down. b) Try to do a cache flush instead. If that fails (do we know?) then power down the disk instead. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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