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Date:      Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:45:37 +0100
From:      Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
To:        Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Dag-Erling =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, mav@freebsd.org, Tijl Coosemans <tijl@coosemans.org>, Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Summary: Re: Spin down HDD after disk sync or before power off
Message-ID:  <20101021144537.000049eb@unknown>
In-Reply-To: <20101021134114.GB72290@freebsd.org>
References:  <201009161742.24228.tijl@coosemans.org> <201009161619.o8GGJAmv035378@lurza.secnetix.de> <20101018155944.GA12425@freebsd.org> <868w1r92rf.fsf@ds4.des.no> <20101021122110.GA65490@freebsd.org> <86zku77mj6.fsf@ds4.des.no> <20101021135442.000054c9@unknown> <20101021134114.GB72290@freebsd.org>

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On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:41:14 +0000
Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org> wrote:

> personally i still think something like the attached patch would be
> nice to have. there's a chance users might type the following:
> 
> 'atacontrol spindown device 10'
> 
> thinking the timeout value is measured in minutes. 

I agree - users coming from ataidle(8) will expect the timeout to be in
minutes too.

-- 
Bruce Cran



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