https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=379745
User werner@novell.com added comment
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=379745#c10
--- Comment #10 from Dr. Werner Fink 2008-07-14 03:20:24 MDT ---
This remark of the manual page is outdated. The new libata interface
*does* flush the write-cache of the IDE disks. There is a patch in
halt.c included to check if the kernel does a flush for not only IDE
but *all* disks and skip the flush in halt.c its self for that case.
See patch sysvinit-2.86-hddown.patch in sysvinit source rpm and see
that not /proc/ide/hd* but /sys/block/ and /sys/class/scsi_disk/ are
used to determine the capabilities of the linux kernel drivers
(compare with bug #386487 and bug #229210).
Beside this the option -h is *not* performed if a md raid is found
in the system, see line 78ff in /etc/init.d/halt
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