On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Freddie Cash wrote: > > I just did this to 8 of the 1.5 TB Caviar Green disks, without ZFS > > complaining in any way. > > I did test it on a spare drive before doing it to the 7 live drives. > And I did replace them while the server was turned off, just to be > safe (and to prevent a resilver from occuring). > > wdidle3 doesn't actually disable the idle timeout on these drives. > Using /d just sets the timeout to 62 minutes. Effectively the same, > but don't be surprised when it continues to say "idel 3 available and > enabled". :)
/d sets it (for me) to 6300 milliseconds (6.3 seconds). I took this as a special value that disabled it entirely (no idea why they didn't use 0 or 255..) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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