Re: Will RAID have issues with disks that spin down?

2012-10-09 Thread Bart Noordervliet
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org 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

Will RAID have issues with disks that spin down?

2012-10-04 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
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? Thanks, -Ken -- To unsubscribe

Re: Will RAID have issues with disks that spin down?

2012-10-04 Thread Hugo Mills
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