From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RBua6-0005Wo-UO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:30:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4DCB321C1A0; Thu, 6 Oct 2011 20:29:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f53.google.com (mail-bw0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17A0A21C28F for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2011 20:28:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkbzt12 with SMTP id zt12so4893663bkb.40 for ; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 13:28:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=n678dNDHqhD+tGSIyagcKCfZW/V8RX723PNnzOiJc1k=; b=wCHDMv0xNinwJkLJ+MOMfogihFe90ooFlI+Dn1tWRTlhNsQ5uYYHUC3Wtj9RByZm04 igWYRmm5IDqIEpO7nwk/AYSjlojjglOXk4CD6zuPIeJ6AiJBaUGiA01//2CO9hIfvo/F kQB9vD1e/Wt9CLtqX3682VJDO/G+Yen8LBe8U= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.132.87 with SMTP id a23mr865483bkt.285.1317932901115; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 13:28:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.177.199 with HTTP; Thu, 6 Oct 2011 13:28:20 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <4E8DFE1B.6060403@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 16:28:20 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How can I power disk off? From: Michael Mol To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 999cc920db7dbf26fde639b0fdeadcef On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Paul Hartman > 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. Does mdraid even have an awareness of timeouts, or does it leave that to lower drivers? I think the latter condition is more likely. I suspect, though, that if your disk fails to spin up reasonably quickly, it's already failed. -- :wq