> > On Fri, 24 Jul 2015 at 21:07 James Harper <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Are the disks in question spun up by the BIOS, or by Linux? > > Not sure. > > I would have assumed BIOS spins all the disks up it detects before starting > grub. > > I am not exactly keeping up with modern BIOS trends though (it is UEFI > boot), so I could be wrong here. The disks containing the btrfs partitions are > not used for booting, and are not used for / either. >
I think it would spin up all the disks it knew about. If you had a SAS card or something with its own BIOS then things might be different. Also spinning up a disk is a pretty quick thing, and would only add a second or two to the mount time. James _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
