On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 04:50 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Tejun Heo wrote: > > Darrick J. Wong wrote: > >> Tejun Heo wrote: > >>> sd doesn't stop (unload head) on shutdown. This behavior is necessary > >>> for multi initiator cases. Unloading head by powering off stresses > >>> the drive and sometimes produces distinct clunking noise which > >>> apparently disturbs users considering multiple reports on different > >>> distributions. halt(8) usually puts the drives to sleep prior to > >>> shutdown but the implementation is fragile and it doesn't work with > >>> sleep-to-disk. > >> I wonder if this sort of thing (cache flush + spin down) is the sort of > >> thing that ought to be done to near-line storage at suspend time too, > >> though one would want allow_restart = 1 before doing such a thing. > > > > For ATA, it's currently being done inside libata proper (a bit ugly). > > It would be nice to have those implemented at sd layer but I wonder how > > useful it's going to be for actual SCSI devices. Do people actually > > suspend using SCSI? If it's useful at the SCSI layer, I can implement > > and test it with SATA devices here. > > There is always the open question for multi-initiator SCSI devices, as > to who "owns" the SCSI device. Some devices should be suspended/stopped > when the machine is suspended/stopped, others not. Actually, ownership in multi-initiator is horribly complex: Some cluster models have transferrable single ownership, but for things like OCFS, there's no one recognised owner at all (for power down, the owner would be the last unmounter). As a practical point, this isn't just a SCSI problem: it won't be long before someone realises they can run OCFS from multiple nodes directly connected over SAS using SATA devices via an expander. The current almost de-facto standard for multi-initiator SATA is the DVD device in a blade centre. James - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
