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Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> Head parking while the system running is almost useless, since sooner or
> later, someone's going to write/read something.
Correct, that's why we're discussing to freeze the request queue as well.
> If you want head parking at shutdown, I suggest using hdparm -y. This puts
> the
> drive to sleep, which includes spindle spindown and, included, appropriate
> head parking.
But it suffers from the same fate - as soon as the disk receives a new
request, it will spin up again. So there is no gain, except that just
parking the head without spinning down the spindle can be performed much
faster.
Bye,
LenZ
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