On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi. I know that several hardware RAID solutions have issues with disks that > spin down when idle; the time to spin back up -- usually on the order of > five seconds -- causes unhappy timeouts, etc. I was wondering if that would > be an issue with RAID a-la btrfs?
I run btrfs on my home server with the disks set to spin down when idle. One of them (a Samsung 1TB) takes a whopping 10 seconds to spin up, but btrfs has no problem with that whatsoever. Regards, Bart -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
