On Thu, 6 Oct 2011 13:21:10 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] How can I power disk off?:

> My worry was that if the mdraid daemon saw one drive gone - either
> when starting to spin down or when one spins up slowly - and if mdraid
> didn't understand that all this stuff was taking place intentionally
> then it might mark that drive as having failed.

Surely you would umount the filesystem before spinning down the disk.
I know I would.  Perhaps I'm just old fashioned.
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Dave  [RLU #314465]
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