On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 10:36:43AM -0400, Ken D'Ambrosio 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 have (some of(*)) the disks in my 8-drive RAID-1 btrfs array set to spin down after 10 minutes of no use. I've not had a problem with it so far. So I'd say it's not an issue from my limited testing. Hugo. (*) Damn you, Samsung! -- === Hugo Mills: hugo@... carfax.org.uk | darksatanic.net | lug.org.uk === PGP key: 515C238D from wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net or http://www.carfax.org.uk --- Great oxymorons of the world, no. 3: Military Intelligence ---
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