Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2020 12:04:19 +0000 (UTC) From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> To: ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r533058 - head/sysutils/parkverbot Message-ID: <202004261204.03QC4JmA038925@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: danfe Date: Sun Apr 26 12:04:19 2020 New Revision: 533058 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/533058 Log: Provide more elaborate and sensible port description. Modified: head/sysutils/parkverbot/pkg-descr Modified: head/sysutils/parkverbot/pkg-descr ============================================================================== --- head/sysutils/parkverbot/pkg-descr Sun Apr 26 11:59:53 2020 (r533057) +++ head/sysutils/parkverbot/pkg-descr Sun Apr 26 12:04:19 2020 (r533058) @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ -Daemon to prevent hard disk head parking in rotational media. +Daemon to prevent hard disk head parking in rotational media. The daemon +will issue small read requests periodically to a random location on disk +in an effort to reset the inactivity timer in the hardware and so prevent +the dreaded head unloading. As such, its operation is non-destructive and +interoperable across different brands of hard drives. WWW: http://parkverbot.sourceforge.net/
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