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On 06/11/2014 03:40 PM, thegeezer wrote: |
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> 50 seconds is very small timeout, be wary of spinup/spindown cycles |
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> which imho are worse than always spinning. |
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For sure, I know, this was only for testing purposes, to see if it |
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works. I don't want to wait ten minutes, or even an hour to see that it |
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actually does not work :-) |
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> depending on what is accessing /dev/sdb you might find that it sleeps |
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> then immediately is woken. lsof is your friend here. |
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> this is how I do it (my time is ten mins) |
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Nope, the filesystem isn't even mounted. |
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> # /etc/conf.d/hdparm |
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> # or, you can set hdparm options for all drives |
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> all_args="-S120" |
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> then.. |
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> # /etc/init.d/hdparm start |
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And nope, it does not spin down. |
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It only spins down if I force it with hdparm -y |
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Cheers, |
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Ralf |
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