[mythtv-users] Spin down drives
mythtv at blandford.net
mythtv at blandford.net
Tue May 10 16:06:29 UTC 2011
On 05/10/2011 09:00 AM, Fa wrote:
> I been tinkering around. Setting the spindown to 30 mins via "hdparm -S
> 241/dev/sda". However, i am finding hard to track down the things which
> are writing to the drives. Sure I can use lsof or fuser to find them,
> but that's just a hassle. Oh, I also tried to add noatime to my fstab.
>
> LABEL=mythtv2 /export/data2 xfs
> defaults,noatime,allocsize=512m 0 0
>
> For some reason, I can only get 1 drive out of my 9 drives to spin down.
> I am still chasing after processes that seems to access them at
> regular intervals. I am trying to aggressively save electricity and
> this server is the biggest draw.
I have a six drive raid 6 that is used exclusively for mythtv.
Mythtv's UPNP will periodically read the files on disk to update the
exported list which keeps the disks awake.
Since I don't use UPNP, I just disabled UPNP for mythtv and my drives
happily go to sleep.
Michael
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