Re: question on flushing buffers and spinning down disk
"U. George" <[email protected]>
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> No. You shouldn't expect users to run a program that would notice a > particular disk drive hasn't been used in X minutes and then power it > down. (Although they could if they wanted to... except that there's no > way for userspace to know when the drive was most recently used.) I use noflushd to do userspace powerdowns for internal (ide) drives. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ [email protected] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel