2007/5/15, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Yeah, it's a big mess. With this patch applied, what happens is...
* If your shutdown(8) does issue STANDBYNOW : you get the big fat
warning and kernel won't issue STANDBYNOW.
* If your shutdown(8) doesn't issue STANDBYNOW : kernel issues FLUSH
CACHE f
Tejun Heo gmail.com> writes:
>
> Our assumption that most distros issue STANDBYNOW seems wrong. The
> upstream sysvinit and thus many distros including gentoo and opensuse
> don't take any action for libata disks on spindown. We can skip
> compat handling for these distros so that they don't n
Tejun Heo gmail.com> writes:
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> > Final question: should spindown_compat be set to 0 for both shutdown and
> > reboot, or just shutdown?
>
> It doesn't really matter. It just needs to be set while powering down.
> You can set it anywhere, during boot, in shutdown.
>
> Thanks.
>
Hibernate/s
