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Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 09:26:58 +0100 From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com> To: Elias Oltmanns <eo@...ensachen.de> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, Christoph Schmid <chris@...lagmichtod.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: is there any Hard-disk shock-protection for 2.6.18 and above? On Sun, Dec 10 2006, Elias Oltmanns wrote: > Hi Jens, > > Elias Oltmanns <eo@...ensachen.de> wrote: > > So, here is a patch in which your remarks and suggestions have been > > incorporated. Additionally, I've added the requested kernel doc file > > and another sysfs attribute called protect_method. The usage of this > > attribute is described in Documentation/block/disk-protection.txt. > > Just forgot to mention that your suggestions haven't been implemented > yet. Thats because I'm only gradually beginning to understand the > reasoning and how it might work out in the end. It will probably take > me another weekend (or more) to come up with something fit for > discussion. Bare with me, I'm rather busy at the moment and still new > to the block layer (or kernel code, for that matter). No worries, take your time. The target for the code wont be 2.6.20 anyways, so you have at least a month to get things designed right and solid for a 2.6.21 target. -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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