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

[Eric Bélanger]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
>

Paul has added storage-fixup to extra. I  think that nothing else has been done.