Reboot and hd shutdown

[K. Spearel]

On Mon, 2004-05-31 at 08:01, Andreas Weggel wrote:
> Am Montag 31 Mai 2004 13:07 schrieb Andreas Weggel:
> > hi,
> >
> > everytime I reboot my computer (under FC2) via ctrl+alt+del or via the
> > reboot command. My hard discs are are disabled like when you halt your PC.
> >
> > This already happend in FC1.
> >
> > Does anybody know how I can prevent reboot from shutting down my hard
> > discs?
> >
> > Andy
> 
> I just found out that the md driver is responseable for the shutting down of 
> my hd drives.
> 
> after reboot has finished the message:
> 
> md: shutting down hard drives
> hda: shut down
> hdb: shut down
> 
> appears and after that my hard discs are off...
> 
> md seems to be static in the kernel, so how can I change that behavior?
> 
> Andy
> 

IIRC, the shutdown is to assure that the write caches on certain hard
drives are properly flushed...without the powerdown, some drives don't
handle this properly thus possibly loosing data.

KAS