From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How can I power disk off?
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 15:56:07 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEH5T2M-YKFv+dfT594JxpYFkUUJtxG0doo-Dbt+gMXfaSKqJw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111006213142.6bec171b@karnak.local>
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 3:31 PM, David W Noon <dwnoon@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> 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.
No need for that, I think it would make things inconvenient...
especially if it's your root filesystem! Don't confuse spindown with
parking of the heads. Spindown is just normal power-saving and happens
all the time if you own a laptop or any modern consumer-grade hard
drive... some of them don't even allow you to disable it anymore!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-06 20:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-06 19:14 [gentoo-user] How can I power disk off? Jarry
2011-10-06 19:27 ` Mark Knecht
2011-10-06 19:34 ` Alex Schuster
2011-10-06 19:38 ` Paul Hartman
2011-10-06 19:44 ` Mark Knecht
2011-10-06 20:03 ` Paul Hartman
2011-10-06 20:21 ` Mark Knecht
2011-10-06 20:28 ` Michael Mol
2011-10-07 1:04 ` Mark Knecht
2011-10-07 1:14 ` Michael Mol
2011-10-07 13:19 ` Mark Knecht
2011-10-06 20:31 ` David W Noon
2011-10-06 20:56 ` Paul Hartman [this message]
2011-10-06 20:49 ` Paul Hartman
2011-10-06 19:41 ` Dale
2011-10-07 1:29 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2011-10-07 2:51 ` Paul Hartman
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