Matt Garman <matthew.garman@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 06:45:45AM +1200, Richard Scobie wrote:
>> Matt Garman wrote:
>>> So what I'm trying to figure out is, what is causing the disk
>>> access? It could be any one of:
>>>
>>> - Kernel
>>> - RAID subsystem (i.e. md)
>>> - XFS filesystem
>>> - NFS
>>> - Samba
>>> - ???
>>
>> Are you running smartd? It polls the drives every 30minutes.
>
> I was running smartd, until I received your post :)
>
> Unfortunately, this does not help keep the heads parked any longer.
>
> Nonetheless, thank you for the hint.
>
> Matt
Smartd has an option not to wake up disks. If you have smartd scann
less often than the suspend time of the disk then idle disk can spinn
down and stay that way.
MfG
Goswin
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