Hi Linux fans,
My English is not my first language, I hope the story below is understandable.
I have a xbuntu machine with 2 hard drives, one for the system, one that
is for backups. The drive for backups is an old, noisy hard drive, so therefore
i would like it to spin as little as possible.
In the current configuration, I don't mount the backup drive, and put it
to sleep with HDparm -Y late in the boot process. When it's time to create
the backup, I mount the backup drive, perform the backup, unmount the drive,
and put the drive back to sleep. This works fine, the backup disk only spins
when the backup is being made.
Now i want to mount the backup drive read-only, so the users can bring back
deleted files themselves. When i mount my reiser disk read-only, and put
it to sleep, the drive wakes up. When i then make sure no process is reading
from /backup, and once again put my drive to sleep with HDparm -Y, then again
the drive wakes up.
Is there any way to mount a reiser drive readonly without the drive being
accessed afterwards? I understand the mount proces itself must read the drive,
but after the mount (and putting the drive in sleep mode with HDparm), the
drive should sleep until a user accesses the drive
Thanks in advance for your attention,
Cedric.
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