On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 08:32:14PM +0100, Soren S. Jorvang wrote:
> But the timeout could also be implemented in the kernel.. This would
> also mean that the same code would work for SCSI disks.

Yes, a generic disk power management system could be usefull.
We could
1) delay some operation when the disk is down
2) for a buffer flush before shutting the disk down

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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