also sprach green <greenfreedom10@gmail.com> [2009.03.10.0428 +0100]:
> Spinning down the drives is not my problem. Or rather I don't think it is. I
> have set the spindown timeout in hdparm.conf and just need to find out what
> processes are accessing the filesystems such that the drives don't spin down
> after that timeout (I use noatime, except for /home which is relatime).
>
> Surely "hdparm -C" wouldn't spin up a drive? I am using that to check
> periodically and the logging that to /tmp (tmpfs).
Try to configure logging such that it writes to tmpfs or
another machine and then set
echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/block_dump
to see what's accessing the disks.
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