also sprach green <greenfreedo...@gmail.com> [2009.03.10.0428 +0100]: > Spinning down the drives is not my problem. Or rather I don't think it is. > I > have set the spindown timeout in hdparm.conf and just need to find out what > processes are accessing the filesystems such that the drives don't spin down > after that timeout (I use noatime, except for /home which is relatime). > > Surely "hdparm -C" wouldn't spin up a drive? I am using that to check > periodically and the logging that to /tmp (tmpfs).
Try to configure logging such that it writes to tmpfs or another machine and then set echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/block_dump to see what's accessing the disks. -- .''`. martin f. krafft <madd...@d.o> Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck http://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems "brevity is the soul of wit." -- polonius (hamlet) "brevity is ... wit." -- the simpsons
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