Hi everybody, I am testing a Proxmox VE installation on a custom-made server with 32 GB RAM (Celeron G3900), SSD for the system installation (including ZIL and ARC2 for ZFS on separate partitions), and 4 disks (Seagate NAS) in ZFS RAID-Z1 configuration. The ZFS pool(s) should be used for large data repositories that are not used continuously, and the aim is therefore to spin down all disks whenever possible. VM disk images should be put onto the SSD (potentially also on another ZFS pool instead of LVM for efficient zfs send/receive), with snapshots mirrored to the ZFS pool on a regular basis (e.g. daily).
My current problem is that in the default installation with a manually created ZFS pool, hd-idle or on-disk settings will not let the platter spin down. I have tracked it down to pvestatd - stopping the daemon will immediately let the disks spin down (if no VM is running from that pool and no file-level access happens either, of course). hd-idle shows regular read requests (no writes) to the disks when pvestatd is running, preventing them from spinning down. Unfortunately, I didn't find any documentation on how to configure pvestatd (manual pages, first web searches, etc.). How can I tell pvestatd to exclude that ZFS pool from its regular scans or to only read meta-data (e.g. zfs list or zpool iostat -v will return free space on the pool without touching the disks)? I best regards, Rene _______________________________________________ pve-user mailing list [email protected] http://pve.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-user
