noflushd - ChangeLog* version 2.7.4 (20040808) [dk]  - Document undesirable side-effects with hotplugged drives, and    recommend to restart noflushd from the hotplug daemon.  - Add fflush() after having updated the flush interval on 2.6    kernels to make sure the new value propagates to the kernel in time.    (Ruediger Greeb)  - Fix 2.6 diskstat parser to work with SCSI disks. (Holger Hofstaette)  - Fix return from pipe in generic startup script. (Markus Biermaier)* version 2.7.3 (20040408) [dk]  - Fix race condition in kupdated/pdflush handling: the TERM handler    might call the start routine with zero timeout.  - Make sure disk_info names always contain the full path to the    device node. Fixes spindown when all disks are auto-detected.* version 2.7.2 (20040316) [dk]  - Only sync disks, but do not flush the cache on spindown.* version 2.7.1 (20040307) [dk]  - Minor fixes to generic init script.  - Include scsi-idle patch for kernel version 2.4.23.  - Update documentation on scsi-idle.  - SCSI support is now a command line option.  - Plug memleak in pdflush interaction.  - Various bug fixes in diskstat parser for 2.6 kernels.  - Make sure IDE sync is finished before attempting spindown.  - Ensure pdflush timers have expired before acknowledging stop.  - Catch bogus pdflush intervals and override with default.  - Add and document inode tracing patch.  - Initialize /proc/partitions parser before daemonizing.* version 2.7 (20040120) [dk]  - Support the Linux 2.6 kernel series. (Michael Buesch)  - Change default behaviour to auto-probe and monitor all disks    unless the user explicitly specifies a particular set of disks    on the command line.  - Sync disks twice before spindown to work around apparent async    behaviour of fsync().  - Disks are synced right after spinup.  - kupdated interface no longer uses the obsolete bdflush() syscall.  - When spindown is cancelled, the idle timer is reset. (Mukesh Rajan)* version 2.6.3 (20020513) [dk]  - Layout of /proc/interrupts differs across archs.  Fix parser.* version 2.6.2 (20020420) [dk]  - Tell partition parser about IDE raid controllers.  - Include timeout logging scripts in contrib. (Thomas Link)  - Minor documentation update.* version 2.6.1 (20020203) [dk]  - Fix stat handling for disks on second IDE channel.* version 2.6 (20020122) [dk]  - Honour disk_index() change in recent (ac) kernels.  - No longer depend on kernel includes (major.h).  - Add irq monitoring. Can be used to prevent spindown when machine is    in interactive use. (Laurent Pelecq)  - sync(2) apparently isn't fully synchronous. A subtle sleep() helps    prevent some immediate spinups right after spindown.  - More clueful error message if kernel does not provide any useful disk    statistics.  - General documentation overhaul. Most importantly, document that    noflushd really sucks with _any_ journaling fs right now, including    ext3.* version 2.5 (20010806) [dk]  - Teach generic startup skript about kupdate->kupdated    as well.  - Monitor /proc/partitions for run-time added disks.  - Only sync present partitions.  - Check manual interaction before spindown.  - Parsing cleanup in update_io_new. (Pavel Machek)  - Fixed get_line() bug that sometimes triggered a segfault.  - Follow POSIX and no longer ignore SIG_CHLD.  - Split documentation into several files.  * version 2.4 (20010313) [dk]  - Fixed handling of timeout lists. (Olivier Chapuis)  - Corrected installation location of init skript.  - Re-introduce verbose spindown messages. (Bob Mathews)  - Honour name change kupdate->kupdated in kernel versions    2.4.2-ac15 and 2.4.3pre3.* version 2.3 (20010120) [dk]  - Fixed /proc/stat parser for latest format change in 2.4.0-test9.    Leaves noflushd non-working on 2.3.99pre8 to 2.4.0-test8.  - Improved early-stage debugging.  - Fix polling intervals in partial state and long bdflush timeouts.    (Adapted from patch by Brent Roman)  - Hint users to not point noflushd to partitions but to device nodes    of the whole disk.* version 2.2 (20001222) [dk]  - Fixed stupid error in try_spindown() preventing spindown. Kudos to    Bob Mathews for tracking down the bug.* version 2.1 (20001220) [dk]  - Included automake-generated files in build tree - dpkg-source includes    symlinks otherwise.  - Sync disks prior to spindown.  - Saner logic to detemine directory of device nodes. * version 2.0 (20001114) [dk]  - Major code reorganisation, considerable rewrite of most parts.  - Turn off kupdate temporarily before checking i/o stats.  - Switched to automake/autoconf build.  - Improved multidisk handling via own syncer. (Patch by Pavel Machek)  - Cured alpha segfault due to wrong cast. (Patch by Andrew Lenharth)  - Init skript missed the noflushd move to /usr/sbin/. (Patch by Honza Fikar)* version 1.8.5 (20000807) [dk]  - Newstyle stat support left oldstyle buggy. (Patch by Andreas U. Trottmann)* version 1.8.4 (20000803) [dk]  - noflushd won't get confused by raid and LVM entries any longer.  - Made pidfile handling optional.  - Included policy changes from debian maintainer.  - Added libc5 compatibility.  - Added support for /proc/stat format in 2.3.99pre8+.  - Added devfs kludges.  - Fixed devfs hang.  - Added spindown ioctl for really old hds.  - Updated documentation.* version 1.8.3 (20000313) [dk]  - Added IDE CD-ROM auto-detection  - Added timeout lists  - Added pidfile handling (might better be done in init skript)  - Added proper GPL blurb  - Updated documentation* version 1.8.2 (20000207) [dk]  - Oops. Forgot to decrement rw_spinning if mark read-only requested* version 1.8.1 (20000127) [dk]  - Added mark-readonly option  - Fixed /proc/partition parsing - won't skip last entry any longer  - Fixed last minute read accounting bug* version 1.8 (20000125) [dk]  - Added multiple disk support  - Added basic SCSI support (still needs kernel patch)  - Moved spindown and kupdate handling from helper skripts into daemon  - Changed commandline options (sorry, but let's do this once and for all)  - Removed helper skripts  - Updated documentation* version 1.7.4 (19990904) [dk]  - changed spindown-now signal from SIGHUP to SIGUSR1  - helper skripts get called with device argument  - various code cleanups  - documentation update  - merged RedHat and SuSE RPM specs* version 1.7.3 (19990827) [dk]  - fixed stupid bug in /proc/stat parsing  - added Makefile rule to build debian source and binary package  - added directory contrib with preliminary scsi support that's of    absolutely no use at the moment* version 1.7.2 (19990826) [dk]  - fixed a bug that would leave kupdate stopped if disk was spun up    due to an explicit write request via sync  - added framework to generate rpm and deb archives  - restructured Makefile; 'make install' now tries to guess     distribution and SysV init layout  - added support for rc.config (START_NOFLUSHD and NOFLUSHD_TIMEOUT)  - fixed a few typos* version 1.7.1 (19990824) [dk]  - added SIGTERM handler to call spinup helper before quitting; avoids    leaving kupdate stopped  - moved spinup/spindown skripts from RCDIR to BINDIR  - renamed install spinup/spindown skripts to noflushd-spinup/spindown  - added make targets for easy installation on Debian, RedHat and SuSE    systems  - tried to make helper skripts work on Debian, RedHat and SuSE systems* version 1.7 (19990821) [dk]  - initial release (taken out from the bdflush-1.6.2 sources, hence the    strange version number)