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

[Aaron Griffin]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Roman Kyrylych
<roman.kyrylych at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/10/19 Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee at gmail.com>:
>> 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.
>
> Thanks for picking up this topic!
>
>>> > 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.
>
> No objections, it seems, go for it!
>
>>> 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.
>
> Good point!
>
>> 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.
>
> IIRC laptop-mode-tools can fix this if configured correctly,
> but this is not the right solution IMO.
>
>> Besides, this is mainly (exclusively?) a problem for laptop hard discs.
>
> I'm not sure if this is a (common enough) problem for 3.5" (non-laptop) HDDs,
> but it's worth noting that 2.5" (AKA "laptop") HDDs are used not only
> in laptops:
> Mini-ITX boxes, NAS boxes, HDTV players, even some servers - all have
> 2.5" HDDs quite often.

What ever happened to this issue? I've been trying to follow it, but
got lost with other things. Do we have storage-fixup anywhere? Is
there a wiki page on this info?