2009/12/16 Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>: > Michał Piotrowski wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've got a home database/symfony env/etc../file server. It's based on >> Intel D945GCLF2D Atom board. I've got a two hard drives WD Green Power >> connected through Sata. First drive has / and /home filesystem, second >> has /home/samba4. On the first drive there are two directories >> /home/samba2 and /home/samba3 where I'm mounting ecryptfs. >> /home/samba4 is also crypted by default. >> >> I'm wondering if there is a safe way for such configuration to put >> second harddrive into sleep (or both drives) after some idle time? >> After some googling I've found some resolutions (haven't tested any of >> these yet): >> - hdparm -S > > I use this for the data drive on my mythbox. I just put this in my > /etc/rc.local - > > # Spin down in 1 hours idle time > hdparm -S 240 /dev/sda Have you used this for a disk with your rootfs? > > (yeah, oddly, sda is not my boot drive) :) > >> - sdparm --set=STANDBY >> - and laptop_tools >> >> I'm really not convinced that these methods are safe for my >> configuration. Anyone have tried this before? > > Yep. What kind of safety are you worried about? I know that ecryptfs is just fs stack on top of my ext3 partition, but still I care about data integrity. > It should just work, > although you want a long enough idle time that you're not constantly > spinning the disk up and down. Actually /home/samba4 is not mounted all the time - I'm umountig this fs when I'm not using it. I'm wondering if there will be any problems with data integrity when I forgot to umount ecryptfs and disk will be stopped. > > Is there any nice user-friendly frontend to set this? It'd be nice > to expose more power management choices to the users (for anything > that can't be easily defaulted, that is). > > -Eric Regards, Michal -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
