[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#157355: should not the kernel be doing this?

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

Should not the kernel be doing the proper device shutdown?  Why are we
kludging this crap in userspace?

The only one who can really flush and idle all SATA, SCSI and PATA devices
(which often sit behind hardware raid controllers) properly is the kernel.

There is also the issue of flushing and checkpointing all still running MD
devices (and other block devices).  The only one who can do this is reliably
is the kernel.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh