Hi there.
I'm very sorry if this is an FAQ; I've searched the wiki but have not
been able to find the answer.
I have five disks, four of which form a RAID5 set, with the fifth being
a spare. This fifth disk is normally spun down, or at least it should
be. (It's a bit more complicated than that, as is evident from the info
included below, but this is essentially it).
I recently noticed that this fifth disk is periodically spun up for
reasons unknown. It's not due to SMART monitoring because I've disabled
the SMART daemon altogether.
My /proc/mdstat is shown below; the disk that is periodically spun up is
/dev/sdf.
How can I find out what is causing my standby disk to spin up?
Many thanks.
Cheers, Jan
========= /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5]
[raid4] [raid10]
md2 : active raid5 sdf2[4](S) sda2[0] sdd2[3] sdc2[2] sdb2[1]
934765824 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/4] [UUUU]
md1 : active raid1 sdb1[0] sdd1[1]
979840 blocks [2/2] [UU]
md0 : active raid1 sdf1[2](S) sda1[0] sdc1[1]
979840 blocks [2/2] [UU]
unused devices: <none>
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