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In-Reply-To: <20101021130730.GA72290@freebsd.org> (Alexander Best's message of
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Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, mav@freebsd.org,
	Tijl Coosemans <tijl@coosemans.org>, Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de>
Subject: Re: Summary: Re: Spin down HDD after disk sync or before power off
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Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org> writes:
> no need to get upset. you asked where i found the information regarding t=
he
> wear impact of spinning down disks and i gave you the answer.

I am upset by your claim that "doing spin downs upon reboot might be
even worse than not doing spindowns upon shutdown", because you should
know better, and following your advice could damage people's hardware.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no