Kevin,
I had used hdparm this way in previous distros (like 6.2).
it never did anything like this (the filesystem was very stable).

when I went to RH7.0 something changed...  The system doesn't 
perform quite as well (sure, there are some nice enhancements
like better, more stable X windows managers), and I get loads more
segfaults on compiling than before.

Basically, I am wondering what redhat software was thinking when they
decided to increase their version number to 7. it should be more like
6.5!

Hawke

Kevin Buettner wrote:
> 
> 
> If you check the newsgroups, I am sure you'll be able to find folks
> who've "hosed their filesystems" with hdparm who are running other
> distros as well.
> 
> I've just looked over the Red Hat patches for hdparm in Red Hat 7
> and they are really quite minimal.  Here's a summary of what they
> do:
> 
> I really think it's unfair to blame Red Hat for your system corruption
> as a result of using hdparm.  Face it, some of the tools that you can
> use to tune your system are dangerous and should be used with care.
> 
> Kevin
> 
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