On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 01:01:27PM +0100, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > Is it possible to "freeze I/O" for some time to a given disk / md / dm > device? > > Say, "freeze I/O" so that userspace waits for any response for 30, 60 > seconds or more? For real disks you can use /sys/block/sdX/device/unload_heads to achieve something similar (see Documentation/laptops/disk-shock-protection.txt in the kernel source about how to use it). That won't work for md/dm devices though. Gabor -- --------------------------------------------------------- MTA SZTAKI Computer and Automation Research Institute Hungarian Academy of Sciences --------------------------------------------------------- -- 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