Re: linux disk access when idle

[Matt Garman <matthew.garman@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 08:42:09AM +0200, Henry, Andrew wrote:
> I had a similar issue, as I wanted to take full advantage of
> parking heads but they kept coming alive again.  I was putting
> them to sleep with hdparm.
> 
> I gave up at the end, but thought I had read that it was likely
> syslog or other internals that were polling the disc too
> frequently.  Sorry Im a bit vague on the details.
> 
> If this was the case (I didn't really investigate) then I thought,
> stuff it, because I wanted syslog to keep doing it's thing.

Good to know.  I should have mentioned, however, that my RAID5
drives are just for data storage.  The OS (and therefore syslog and
friends) is actually on a compact flash card (using one of those
compact flash to IDE converters).

Thanks,
Matt