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Date:      Sun, 24 Oct 2010 20:30:53 +0200
From:      Tijl Coosemans <tijl@coosemans.org>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Cc:        Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org>, Alexander Motin <mav@freebsd.org>, Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de>, freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Summary: Re: Spin down HDD after disk sync or before power off
Message-ID:  <201010242031.09656.tijl@coosemans.org>
In-Reply-To: <4CC4633D.4070605@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201009161742.24228.tijl@coosemans.org> <20101024011854.GB78293@freebsd.org> <4CC4633D.4070605@FreeBSD.org>

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On Sunday 24 October 2010 18:47:57 Alexander Motin wrote:
> I am not sure, but have feeling that tape drives (for example) may
> also benefit from head parking before powering down.

USB hard disks would benefit as well I think. Although, ideally it
should happen after unmounting the last file system.

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