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need help for powersaving a software raid (feddit.fr)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Hello there
I want to reduce the consumption of my server and so, to reduce access to hard drives

But I suspect mdadm to access the drives frequently and wake them up.

Because even when the drives are not mounted, they wake up frequently and I can't find the reason.

Because the are not mounted, it's not due to a process.

I've temporarily disabled smartd so it's not that.

remains the software raid, who can potentially do regular checks, if that's the case how to fix it?
?

ps: I know spin down/up isn't good

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[–] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

You can try and figure out what's accessing the array:

fatrace | grep /mnt/mountpoint/

This will show you the process, type of access (read, write, open, etc), and path. If you don't see anything right away just leave it running for a bit.

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