Is there any way that the drive can signal the OS about a spindown going to happen? that way, the OS can flush changes *prior* the spindown and the problem of "waking up" will be fixed.
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:47 AM, AmenophisIII <539...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > i agree, that this is a design problem of the filesystem/blockdevice cache > management. > the drive spins down possibly before pending changes are written out so > unmounting has to ensure that later by waking up the disk and commit the > changes. also drives can spindown themself without OS intervention (see > hdparm -S docs). > > -- > "Safely remove drive" is waking-up my external HD > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/539064 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > -- "Safely remove drive" is waking-up my external HD https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/539064 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
