You could easily do this in Solaris today by just using power.conf(4). Just have it spin down any drives that have been idle for a day or more.
The periodic testing part would be an interesting project to kick off. --Bill On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 08:21:16PM -0200, Toby Thain wrote: > Hi, > > This is not exactly ZFS specific, but this still seems like a > fruitful place to ask. > > It occurred to me today that hot spares could sit in standby (spun > down) until needed (I know ATA can do this, I'm supposing SCSI does > too, but I haven't looked at a spec recently). Does anybody do this? > Or does everybody do this already? > > Does the tub curve (chance of early life failure) imply that hot > spares should be burned in, instead of sitting there doing nothing > from new? Just like a data disk, seems to me you'd want to know if a > hot spare fails while waiting to be swapped in. Do they get tested > periodically? > > --Toby > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
