Re: Disk spin down issue on shut down/suspend to disk

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>]

On Mon, 06 Aug 2007, Michael Sedkowski wrote:
> Dnia 06-08-2007, Pn o godzinie 11:23 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
> napisa??(a):
> > On Mon, 06 Aug 2007, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > > Cc'ing Henrique.  Any ideas?
> > 
> > Check if /etc/init.d/halt is calling halt(8) with the -h flag.  If it is,
> > remove that -h flag.  Usually, there is a hddown variable that holds it, you
> > just need to get rid of it.
> > 
> > I don't know anything about a Sidux, though.
> 
> Well there is an -h variable:
> # Don't shut down drives if we're using RAID.
> 	hddown="-h"
> 	if grep -qs '^md.*active' /proc/mdstat
> 	then
> 		hddown=""
> 	fi
> ....
> log_action_msg "Will now halt"
> 	halt -d -f $netdown $poweroff $hddown
> However removing it has no effect, the drive still spins down two times.

Nothing in Debian userspace will spin down the drive if you kill that -h, at
least as far as I know.

> Sidux is a Debian Unstable based distro with it's own set of patches
> including the shut down patch provided here:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=426224

You'll probably have to ask Sidux what changes they made that could cause
the double spin down, even if halt(8) is never passed the -h flag.

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  Henrique Holschuh