[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Load_Cycle_Count and storage-fixup

Ng Oon-Ee ngoonee at gmail.com
Sun Oct 18 21:06:42 EDT 2009


On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 02:54 +0200, Damjan Georgievski wrote:
> >> Anyone else has some opinion about how to handle this?
> >
> > I'd like to affirm the opinions of Roman and Xavier and take some action on
> > this.
> >
> > Anyone object to my putting storage-fixup in [extra] at least? If no
> > objections by W 9/21, I plan to go ahead with that step. If it works out, we
> > can talk about follow-up steps like:
> >
> > 1) moving it to [core]
> > 2) integrating it into default rc.d scripts
> >
> > It's a pretty serious issue for laptop users with affected drives. And the
> > drives are pretty popular ones, methinks.
> 
> Also note that, when raising awerness about this issue, the fixup
> ussually needs to be run on resume from disk (and I think resume from
> ram) too. Not only on boot.
> 
> 
Isn't all this handled simply by getting laptop-mode to do it? Its
possible to allow laptop-mode to control hdparm settings, after all.
Besides, this is mainly (exclusively?) a problem for laptop hard discs. 



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