Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 11 Oct 2003 15:59:43 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] laptop mode |
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On Sat, Oct 11 2003, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > Right now laptopmode/aam is just a suspect. There are still 1-2 other > > > small patches against IDE which could be the reason. We've dropped > > > laptopmode/aam for the time being to see if the folks seeing repeatable > > > corruption suddenly start behaving again. > > > > aam patch is far more risky, it's a far more likely suspect. That patch > > never reall did go out of beta. Dropping laptop-mode and aam at the same > > time is bad engineering practice :). > > > > laptop-mode cannot cause corruption that cannot show otherwise. > > Well, if fireballs have data-corrupting that happens just after spinup > (for example), I can see how laptop-mode affects that. W/o > laptop-mode, disk is spinning all the time so sleep bugs can not > manifest themselves. You add laptop-mode, and...
Not very likely, imho. People have been using spin down with hdparm for years (in Linux and elsewhere), while acoustic management is a bit more esoteric.
-- Jens Axboe
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