Bill Davidsen wrote:
Greg Cormier wrote:
Is it possible to sleep hard drives in an array?
I have a HTPC at home that's on 24x7. It does all my torrenting as
well, and is mainly a media server.
Can I sleep the drives in my RAID5 array while it's not being used?
It's an XFS partition.
I have each drive set as
hdparm -S240 /dev/sdX
But I'm fairly sure they are not spinning down :( Is there some
activity mdadm is doing in the background?
These things are probably idle 22 hours of the day.
I have several very similar systems, and I note that on one the disk
light blinks every five sec or so, while the others don't do that. The
one that blinks is the only one running LVM, all the others were
partitioned by hand. Does that apply to your system, LVM in use?
Geez!! pardon me if I don't either "get it" or am unable to communicate
about "it". Those thinking that I'm un-necessarily repeating myself -
email your flames and I will be gone from here for a few months.
Put / [and whatever ELSE that needs to be mounted] on a USB drive. I
recently got a 2Gb drive for pocket change!!
Learn, or borrow someone who knows how - scripts. I don't think that you
would give a darn if a ram-drive didn't "spin-down". So PUT what can
not be put to sleep on something that doesn't have mechanical wear!!!
Your system can be set up to WAKE up with everything mounted and ready
to go on ANY trigger/situation that YOU want - except the states need to
be either on or off... there are lots of states that newer 'puters
monitor. I'm sorry but THIS is not rocket science.
NOW!! YOU FAILED TO RESPOND!! To my earlier response to you. Please
allow me to ax you again.... WHY do you want spin-down? HMMM
Less noise- - buy new drives
Less elect. co$t - If they aren't seeking, draw is LOW
Less wear on the drives - I have never had a drive mfg respond to
my questions about this. My [totally personal] view on this is if
you're shutting down for a few hr., you will lose, weeks will win.
As a FINAL note here - Somehow I do not know WHAT compubox that you are
using, IF you are using linux/unix/bsd, and WHAT level your
make/compiler/etc are at. This particular forum has SEVERAL really
talanted and experienced people on here. The only reason which I could
point at might be that you seem to be clueless - which is a different
forum. :)
If I have caused yellow dribble and you wish to directly hammer me .. my
name is "berk" hehe.. and my email provider is "panix".. of course +".com.
If you cause me to be flooded w/spam....................[I know, it's a
public forum].
b-
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