I guess I am not really in favor of spinning down disks all the
time.
Most of the wear and tear that decreases the lifetime of a disk is at
startup and shutdown, so unless there are power management reasons
(i.e. on a laptop), I think it is probably better to simply leave the
disks spinning all the time.
In principle, it would probably not be that harmful to perform
spinup/spindown on mount/unmount. Having an idle timer seems like a
dangerous idea to me, as you could wear out a disk in a real hurry.
>I expect that if support for spinning down scsi drives were to be added to
>the kernel, such an approach would have to be taken anyways. The scsi-idle
>patch available at sunsite, if it worked properly, would have basically
>provided this -- is anyone still working on this one? I haven't seen any
First I have heard of this one.
-Eric
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