https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=229210 teheo@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED Resolution|FIXED | ------- Comment #25 from teheo@novell.com 2007-06-05 22:28 MST ------- It should be a bit more complex than that. Problems... 1. Will cause double spindown for some drives on newer kernels. 2. HDIO_DRIVE_CMD only works on ide and recent libata drivers. 3. Issuing spin down to multi-initiator drives will cause problems. Luckily, #2 and #3 cancel each other. We can choose one of the followings. 1. (simple one) Don't do anything. The kernel changes have been improved such that the kernel does the right thing if userland shutdown (halt/poweroff) doesn't do anything prior to initiating kernel shutdown, so newer distributions (10.3 and SLE11) will do the right thing without any update to userland sysvinit but all existing ones will shorten lifespan of drives on each poweroff. 2. (more complex but better one) Update shutdown such that it behaves according to section 3-1-a of http://linux-ata.org/shutdown.html and issue update for existing distributions which have libata drivers (SL102 and SLE9/10). Note that the shutdown(8) should only spin down libata drives. Debian is taking this path. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.