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From: John Robinson <john.robinson@anonymous.org.uk>
To: berk walker <berk@panix.com>
Cc: linux-raid <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux disk access when idle
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 03:07:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A8F52FD.8090303@anonymous.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A8F4CAF.2060305@panix.com>

On 22/08/2009 02:41, berk walker wrote:
> 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.

Not necessarily. I don't know what they did to achieve it, but Netgear's 
ReadyNAS devices can be configured to park the drives when they're left 
alone, it works (unless you're using SqueezeCenter), and they're 
Linux-based.

Cheers,

John.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-22  2:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-20 16:35 linux disk access when idle Matt Garman
2009-08-20 18:45 ` Richard Scobie
2009-08-21 16:59   ` Matt Garman
2009-08-21 17:01     ` Ric Wheeler
2009-08-22 21:04       ` Matt Garman
2009-08-23 18:23         ` Bill Davidsen
2009-08-26 19:45         ` Matt Garman
2009-08-22  6:33     ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-08-21  6:42 ` Henry, Andrew
2009-08-21  8:17   ` Jon Hardcastle
2009-08-21 16:35     ` Foster_Brian
2009-08-21 17:31       ` Matt Garman
2009-08-21 17:22   ` Matt Garman
2009-08-21 22:00 ` Bill Davidsen
2009-08-21 23:10   ` Matt Garman
2009-08-21 23:13     ` Carl A. Cook
2009-08-22  1:41       ` berk walker
2009-08-22  2:07         ` John Robinson [this message]
2009-08-22  4:28           ` Richard Scobie
2009-08-22  5:04     ` Tapani Tarvainen
2009-08-22  6:37       ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-08-24 18:07       ` Billy Crook
2009-08-22  5:02 ` Kyle Liddell

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