Hello, Bruce and cc'd reporters. I'm having a second thought about storage-fixup as solution for frequent head unload problem. Initially, I thought there would be only a handful of affected machines but it doesn't look like that anymore and storage-fixup is too inflexible. IMHO, this can be best dealt with by smartd if it can do the followings. * smartd knows about most drive families - their l/ul limits and which value to use to disable APM. * it monitors u/ul limits and if the load count increases fast enough that the drive reaches the limit before 1.5 years of uptime (or some other value), it warns and automatically disables APM. By doing the above, we don't have to maintain list of combinations of system and harddrives which can never be complete and later when the disk workload becomes different due to FS or VM changes, the powersaving feature can be left enabled. Obstacles are... * How to build rather complete SMART database? I think vendor cooperation is necessary. If we can work out something, it will also improve general usefulness of SMART. * Making distros enable smartd by default. smartd might need a bit of adjustment but I think this shouldn't be too difficult. What do you think? Till we can figure out something, I'll keep building storage-fixup.conf. Thanks. -- 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
