Re: question on flushing buffers and spinning down disk

"U. George" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.usb.devel,gmane.linux.scsi
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> 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
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.