[CentOS] Just need to vent

Wed Jan 27 16:11:56 UTC 2016
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

Jonathan Billings wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 02:30:15PM +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> Jonathan Billings wrote:
>>
>> >> > Maybe you're not
>> >> > aware of it, but there are a LOT of things that systemd fixes that
>> >> > people are happy about.
>>
>> >> Like what ? I don't remember there were as many errors to fix before
>> >> systemd appeared.
>>
>> > I suggest reading the previous emails (SOME OF WHICH YOU REPLIED TO)
>> > that listed many of the features people are happy about.
>>
>> I don't take a position in the systemd argument,
>> but you said that systemd fixes lots of problems.
>> It is perfectly reasonable to ask you to name one of these problems,
>> perhaps the one you think is most important.
>
> Well, here's a great one.  I agree with Matthew:
>
> https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2016-January/157399.html
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Well, that's interesting, about making sure it's stopped. I've asked here
a month or two ago, and got no responses: my manager has me using
pmount/pumount to mount the hard drives I'm putting in the eSATA drive bay
for offline backups. Formerly, I used mount/umount, and when I umounted
it, and walked downstairs, mostly, esp the green drives, were spun down. I
pumount... and *nothing* spins down. They stay spinning, which is obvious,
as I can feel the gyroscopic action as I pop them out immediately after
hitting the button to turn off the power to the drive.

That box is running CentOS 7.

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