Hi! > > I need to use "reboot=p" on my desktop because one of the PCIe devices > > does not appear after a warm boot. This results in a very cold boot > > because the BIOS turns the PSU off and on. > > > > The scsi sd shutdown process does not send a stop command to disks > > before the reboot happens (stop commands are only sent for a shutdown). > > > > The result is that all of my SSDs experience a sudden power loss on > > every reboot, which is undesirable behaviour. These events are recorded > > in the SMART attributes. > > Why is it undesirable for an SSD ? The sequence you are describing is not > different from doing "shutdown -h now" and then pressing down the power button > again immediately after power is cut... Many SSDs are buggy, and will eventually corrupt themselves if you do enough sudden power loss experiments. HDDs don't like their power cut, either. You can hear the difference between normal power off and power cut... > > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx This needs lot more testing before going to stable. Thanks, Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html