Re: (reiserfs) Re: sync: why disk cannot spin down

From: Matthias Andree (matthias.andree@gmx.de)
Date: Mon Jul 31 2000 - 09:31:27 EST


On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Xuan Baldauf wrote:

> > > does not necessarily spin up the disk!
> >
> > Because you have to issue a drive reset.
>
> This is my intent, not to spin up the disk. (In my previous case, sync
> always spun up the disk because the filesystem was not mounted with
> "noatime".)

This will still not work, since after some time, the kernel starts
missing the drive acknowledgements and eventually issues a reset
condition on that IDE channel. See my other mail for details.

-- 
Matthias Andree

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