Re: [zfs-discuss] Is it safe/possible to idle HD's in a ZFS Vdev to save wear/power?

2010-04-18 Thread Enrico Maria Crisostomo
Hi. I'm using two SIIG eSATA II PCIe PRO adapters on a Sun Ultra 24 workstation, too. The adapters are connected to four external eSATA drives that made up a zpool used for scheduled back-up purposes. I'm now running SXCE b129, live upgraded from b116. Before the live upgrade the external disks

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is it safe/possible to idle HD's in a ZFS Vdev to save wear/power?

2010-04-17 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 04/16/10 20:26, Joe wrote: I was just wondering if it is possible to spindown/idle/sleep hard disks that are part of a Vdev pool SAFELY? it's possible. my ultra24 desktop has this enabled by default (because it's a known desktop type). see the power.conf man page; I think you may need

[zfs-discuss] Is it safe/possible to idle HD's in a ZFS Vdev to save wear/power?

2010-04-16 Thread Joe
Hi all, I'm still an OpenSolaris noob, so please be gentle... I was just wondering if it is possible to spindown/idle/sleep hard disks that are part of a Vdev pool SAFELY? My objective is to sleep the drives after X time when they're not being used and spin them back up if required. This is