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I have a home-fileserver with 6 desktop harddisks in a md-raid.
The server isn't accessed a lot, so I think it would be good for the harddrives to go in standby-mode after some idle time (e.g. with the hdparm -S or hd-idle command).
Is this safe when using mdadm or could this cause errors/degraded harddisks?
As a quick answer, I believe that if something is supposed to write/read the drive, it will come out of standby. – soandos – 2011-08-26T21:35:56.070
I take it you're not using a desktop environment on this computer? It'd be really safe if gnome or kde did it for you. – digitxp – 2011-08-26T21:36:39.630
@soandos: Yes that's the behaviour I would expect too. – Dani31 – 2011-08-26T21:43:29.337
@digitxp: You're right, but why do you think it would be really safe with a desktop environment? – Dani31 – 2011-08-26T21:44:16.543
1@Dani31 You know the Gnome guys, they'll make something absolutely idiotproof or if they can't they'll pretend such a feature never existed. – digitxp – 2011-08-26T21:47:16.670