>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Date: 2008/08/10 Sun AM 03:11:39 PDT
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Prevent spin-up of ReiserFS HD mounted read-only

>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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Try umount of the drive.
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