On Thu, Aug 18 2005, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > Please make it "echo 1 > frozen", then userspace can do "echo 0 > frozen" > > > after five seconds. > > > > What if the code to do "echo 0 > frozen" is swapped out to disk? ;) > > Emergency head parker needs to be pagelocked for other reasons. You do > not want to page it from disk while your notebook is in free fall.
It's still a very bad idea imho, what if the head parker daemon is killed for other reasons? The automatic timeout thawing the drive is much saner. -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
