On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I wonder if I'm seeing something like Matt is seeing with the drive > continually being woken up. I know most of the time it just sits idle > from a user's perspective, but I've done nothing to stop daemons or > anything like that. It runs screen savers, gets used every day for an > hour or two, but is always powered up so that I can administer it from > 350 miles away. In my case, I want to emphasize the following: my WD Green drives are strictly a data store. The system runs from a compact flash card. Though I disabled them anyway, many daemons, such as syslog, sshd, cron, fetchmail, etc, should only affect the *system* drive. However, daemons like nfs and smbd can obviously affect the data store. Even so, I wouldn't expect them to cause a disk access unless a request is made. The point is, in my opinion, a non-system partition should be that much easier to make "truly" idle... still, I can't figure out how to do it. -Matt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
