[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#465975: Bug#465975: reboot(8) spins down the disk

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, jidanni at jidanni.org wrote:
> HdMH>         # Don't shut down drives if we're using RAID.
> But I don't use raid.

Forget the comment, after the patch, it will not stop drives ever.

> I won't be on a machine where I can put my ear next to the disk until
> a few days from now, and it is best if I can be excused from most
> testing as on my rural mountaintop, I cannot get help if something
> breaks. Anyway, anybody else notice it?

If I could reproduce it, I would have...

> HdMH> I have *never* heard of halt screwing up on a reboot, though.  Just on
> HdMH> shutdown, and that was with the old, broken kernel behaviour.  What kernel
> HdMH> are you using?
> 
> ii linux-image-2.6.24-1- 2.6.24-4 Linux 2.6.24 image on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/
> Linux jidanni1 2.6.24-1-686 #1 SMP Mon Feb 11 14:37:45 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

Urk. 2.6.24.  Any chances of trying it on 2.6.23?

> Anyway, reboot worked fine, but I just happened to note the disk was
> spun down and back up in the process, as my head happened to be near
> it that day.

It should park heads, yes.  Spin down, never.

-- 
  "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