On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:06 PM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi :) > > to help those who have "green" HDDs that can't keep asleep when gvfs is > installed, I replaced the dummy package for gvfs I had installed by the > real gvfs package and try to solve this issue by another method. > > There absolutely in no need to install gvfs on my machine, but since > there's a "green" EU Regulation, soon or later more people will > experience that their "green" drives will spin down and up again and > again. > > The assumption is that it's udisks that wakes up sleeping drives, for > gvfs seemingly configurable by /usr/share/gvfs/remote-volume-monitors/. > This assumption might be wrong. > > $ systemctl status udisks > udisks.service - UDisks > Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/udisks.service; disabled) > Active: inactive (dead) > > $ cat /usr/share/gvfs/remote-volume-monitors/udisks2.monitor > [RemoteVolumeMonitor] > Name=GProxyVolumeMonitorUDisks2 > DBusName=org.gtk.Private.UDisks2VolumeMonitor > IsNative=true > NativePriority=4 > > What are "IsNative" and "NativePriority" for? > > I still search myself, but any hints are welcome, to disable _what ever_ > wakes up such "green" drives. > > Without gvfs those drives keep asleep. > > Regards, > Ralf > It may or may not help you, but I started using linker magic for everything. did you start reading the gvfsd source? Write me off-list and we can try sorting this out... cheers! mar77i
