Re: mountd prevents spindown of non-exported disk

2008-02-25 Thread Timo Reimann
Neil Brown wrote: On Wednesday February 20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Although there should be nothing accessing the disk except my custom backup cron job initiating at 5am daily, something was constantly bringing it back into active state after a rough 20-25 minutes. With the help of

Re: mountd prevents spindown of non-exported disk

2008-02-25 Thread Benjamin Coddington
Timo Reimann wrote: Is there anything else I can do in attempt to resolve this issue? I suppose pasting the complete output of strace might help, but I wouldn't do so without explicit confirmation of yours as the log-file is 3.2 MB large. Maybe this is too simplistic, but have you tried

Re: mountd prevents spindown of non-exported disk

2008-02-22 Thread Timo Reimann
Neil Brown wrote: On Thursday February 21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could always build your own nfs-utils and configure with --without-uuid. Not an ideal solution... What would be the downside of that solution? I suppose NFS would keep on working even if I disabled that switch, but you

Re: mountd prevents spindown of non-exported disk

2008-02-21 Thread Neil Brown
On Thursday February 21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could always build your own nfs-utils and configure with --without-uuid. Not an ideal solution... What would be the downside of that solution? I suppose NFS would keep on working even if I disabled that switch, but you gave the

Re: mountd prevents spindown of non-exported disk

2008-02-20 Thread Neil Brown
On Wednesday February 20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have two disks in my server, one of them (hda) being used for backups solely. To reduce noise level and power consumption, I have been trying to keep it running in standby mode (as opposed to active) most of the time. Although