Just so you guys know: 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 check 2.6.16 too, since Adrian Bunk is taking care of that and it is likely to be around for a while.
2. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7838, Tejun Heo set me straight re. the cache sync support (i.e. the kernel does the right thing), and will eventually work on adding back proper head unload support on power off and suspend-to-disk. 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. I hope that for Lenny we will be able to remove the hideous crap from hell we have in halt to deal with these issues, and just trust the kernel to do it right, as it can do it a lot better than us. -- "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 _______________________________________________ Pkg-sysvinit-devel mailing list Pkg-sysvinit-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-sysvinit-devel
