[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Disk syncing (SCSI, SATA) on reboot

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> 1. Kernels 2.6.18+ are guaranteed to properly sync SCSI and libata SATA
> disks on reboot and shutdown.  halt(8) doesn't need to do it at all.  I will

It is valid for 2.6.16, too.

> I will now look at the old non-libata SATA support and IDE support to check
> whether it syncs disks and/or unload heads.  If it doesn't, I will open a
> bug too for those subsystems.

IDE (and also old SATA) subsystems do everything right. In fact, IDE and old
SATA *do the right thing for poweroff*, unlike SCSI/libata.

So, as soon as SCSI is fixed, we will be able to depreacate, and eventually
remove the crap in halt(8).

-- 
  "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