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Subject: Re: Safe powerdown feature

Re: Safe powerdown feature

From: c s <rb_dev_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 17:35:10 -0700 (PDT)

--- Linus Nielsen Feltzing <linus_at_haxx.se> wrote:
> Andreas Stemmer wrote:
>
> > I just noticed that the safe powerdown feature
> spins up the drive every time
> > before shutting down, even if there's nothing to
> write. Are there any
> > reasons for this behaviour?
>
> Yes. There is currently no way of knowing if the
> settings have changed
> or not, so we have to write them to disk every time.
>
> Linus

Since ata_delayed_write is called (indirectly via
settings_save) to update the disk whenever settings
are changed, don't we just need to spin up the disk
only if the delayed_write flag is set, i.e. if a
delayed write is pending?

=====
Craig

rb_dev_at_yahoo.com


                
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