On Wed, 13 Aug 2008, Leisner, Martin wrote: > Regarding these scsi suspend patches, there's a general > problem to drop power on disk devices on a running system. > I discussed it in: > > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/811598 There's a much worse problem which that thread completely ignored: When you turn off power to a disk device, to the system it looks like a hot-unplug event. Any mounted filesystems or memory mappings on that disk will be lost. Alan Stern _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
