On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 08:58:50AM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > This is not true. Many hard disks don't like having to do an emergency > > shutdown as it affects the disk life time negatively. That's what > > happens if you poweroff the machine when the disks are still spinning. > > Can you point to any authoritative information (URL) about > that claim, such as vendor specs, white paper or similar?
Not without digging. NetBSD PR 21531 had a reference, but that is dead nowadays. Joerg _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
