atacontrol spindown

[Alexander Popov]

All FreeBSD system partitions are on a disk that I never try to spin down. It is weird that something in periodic daily tries to read from my data disks...

Alexander.


--- On Wed, 4/29/09, Paul B. Mahol <onemda at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Paul B. Mahol <onemda at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: atacontrol spindown
> To: aopopov at yahoo.com
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org, "Daniel C. Dowse" <dcdowse at gmx.net>
> Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2009, 3:17 PM
> On 4/29/09, Alexander Popov <aopopov at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi, Paul,
> >
> > Below is my /etc/crontab. The only thing that is run
> at 3 am is periodic
> > daily.
> >
> 
> If any of scripts from /etc/crontab needs access(just
> reading, not
> counting writing,
> considering it is not already cached)
> on spindowned hard disk your mission will fail.
> 
> If you want to keep logging and logs (via another ways) you
> could make
> memory disk for root
> and var slice ... and transfer logs to another media ...
> or use another hard disk for that....
>