Francesco Pretto wrote: > Tejun Heo <htejun <at> gmail.com> writes: >>> 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/suspend shall be also considered. Setting it during boot it's one time > for every poweroff conditions, but i can't say if it's the best approach. The compat thing is only for shutdown/powerdown. Kernel will always flush and spindown disks on suspends. So, really, it doesn't matter when you set the variable. -- tejun - 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
