Staggered wake-up from standby for SATA disks
Nuno Subtil
subtil at gmail.com
Sat Oct 5 02:39:23 UTC 2013
Greetings,
I have a small storage server with several SATA drives running ZFS on
9.2-RELEASE. Due to various issues (mostly dealing with noise and
power consumption), the system was spec'ed with a power supply that
requires spinning up the disks one by one. This problem is easily
solved for boot-up by enabling power-up in standby on the drives and
setting CAM_MAX_HIGHPOWER=1, which seems to work fine.
I'm also interested in allowing the drives in the ZFS pool to spin
down after a period of inactivity. However, it sounds like
CAM_MAX_HIGHPOWER doesn't help for this scenario (or maybe I'm wrong?)
--- as far as I can tell, multiple drives would be allowed to spin up
from standby at the same time.
Is there an equivalent mechanism for staggering wake-up from standby
on SATA disks?
Thanks,
Nuno Subtil
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