From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: berk walker Subject: Re: linux disk access when idle Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:41:03 -0400 Message-ID: <4A8F4CAF.2060305@panix.com> References: <20090820163522.GA29215@sewage> <4A8F190B.9010406@tmr.com> <20090821231039.GB22331@sewage> <200908211613.28075.CACook@quantum-equities.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200908211613.28075.CACook@quantum-equities.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: "Carl A. Cook" Cc: linux-raid List-Id: linux-raid.ids I thought it was just a trait of the animal. My Linux systems have always done disk access every few seconds, 24/7. From '92 on. b-