[mythtv-users] Autoexpire checking all disks every 15 minutes causing them to not spin down

[John Drescher]

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 10:55 AM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 10:42 AM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I don't think it is AutoExpire that is keeping your disks awake, but
>>>> rather the UPNP media scan.
>>>>
>>>> Try passing mythbackend --noupnp if you aren't using upnp.  Once I did
>>>> that my disks go to sleep and stay asleep.
>>>>
>>> Hmm. I will try that when I get home from work. Did not expect that
>>> because I do not have a /share/Movies/dvd folder...
>>>
>> Ahh now I see it.. There is a thread on "upnpmedia polling" that
>> describes this. Thank you.
>>
>
> Looks like without this setting my slave backend never connects
> (mythweb status not connected) to the master backend preventing me
> from recording NTSC which is 95% of what I record. So I will disable
> this flag for now and see if I can fix that problem first.
>
I fixed that and tuned the flag (--noupnp) back on but the drives are
still being woken up. I have autofs on the myth mounts and they still
are getting mounted periodically so their definitly is activity on
them even though mythtv is not recording or playing anything.

/dev/mapper/vg1-mythdata1 on /mnt/mythtv/jmd1_vg1_1 type xfs
(rw,noatime,nobarrier)
/dev/mapper/vg1-mythdata2 on /mnt/mythtv/jmd1_vg1_2 type xfs
(rw,noatime,nobarrier)
/dev/mapper/vg2-mythdata1 on /mnt/mythtv/jmd1_vg2_1 type reiserfs (rw)
/dev/mapper/vg3-mythdata1 on /mnt/mythtv/jmd1_vg3_1 type xfs
(rw,noatime,nobarrier)
/dev/mapper/vg-mythdata1 on /mnt/mythtv/jmd1_vg_1 type xfs
(rw,noatime,nobarrier)

John