Bug 410567

Summary:	sys-block/noflushd-2.8 version bump
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Holger Hoffstätte <holger>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	Keywords:	EBUILD, PATCH
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1051486&group_id=12257&atid=112257
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Trivial fix to fetch correct tarball

Description Holger Hoffstätte 2012-04-02 14:36:49 UTC

noflushd shuts down block devices that are not in use; this can significantly save power/noise/heat when multiple drives are used for archival/backups etc.
The version in portage is very old and does not even work correctly any longer with newer kernels/SATA drives, see $URL for my upstream bug report in 2004 (!).
The latest version 2.8 from 2010 fixes this problem.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run noflushd on kernel >2.6.9 with a SATA drive
2. it doesn't work
3. :(


Expected Results:  
noflushd should work with recent kernels & drives

Comment 1 Holger Hoffstätte 2012-04-02 14:37:45 UTC

Created attachment 307501 [details, diff]
Trivial fix to fetch correct tarball

Comment 2 Tony Vroon (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-10-10 18:24:35 UTC

+*noflushd-2.8 (10 Oct 2013)
+
+  10 Oct 2013; Tony Vroon <chainsaw@gentoo.org> +noflushd-2.8.ebuild:
+  Version bump, as requested by Holger Hoffstätte in bug #410567.