Re: EU Regulation and gvfs
On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 06:01 -0500, Selim T. Erdogan wrote:
> Another workaround, perhaps: I remember noticing something for this on
> the hdparm man page. Checking again now, I see that the -J option is
> for setting WD Green drives' "idle3" timeout value. It mentions that
> you can even disable it completely. Maybe it'll work for your drive
> too...
Thank you Selim :)
I already know it, since it's mentioned at
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Advanced_Format#Disable_via_hdparm
but when idle3ctl, also mentioned on this page, didn't work, I decided
to remove the gvfs crap. If GNOME and Xfce Thunar developers don't care
about EU regulations, then they are idiots. I don't agree myself with
all EU regulations, but if a drive spins down after 30 minutes, it's a
valide value. There's no need for gvfs to touch the drive.
However for some usage I prefer the drive never to spin down, so I will
test hdparm, when I need it. At the moment I run a script that touchs
the drives in intervals, to avoid a spin down, when I don't want it to
spin down, but most of the times I prefer the energy saving mode, that
works as wanted, if gvsf is removed.
http://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/thunar-dev/2013-March/004973.html
For those understanding German, even people who don't have this WD issue
don't like gvsf.
GNOME and if Xfce does follow GNOME simply is crap. I'm still using Xfce
and GNOME apps myself, but I'm pissed off and stop reporting bugs,
neither to maintainers, nor to upstream, excepted of bugs for audio
production apps, since they do care about real live.
Regards,
Ralf
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