March 6, 201412 yr My disks won't spin down. I have auto-spin down set to four hours, but even overnight only my parity disk spins down, although the cache disk is the only one that's been spun down. I have directory caching enabled, force disks busy off. Mover is not moving. I've tried rebooting. Any other reason why disks wouldn't spin down? syslog attached. syslog.txt.zip
March 6, 201412 yr Author Enter "lsof /mnt/user" and "lsof /mnt/disk*" Here output for those commands: root@TheMonolith:~# lsof /mnt/user COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME smbd 6391 root cwd DIR 0,15 80 3 /mnt/user/Misc smbd 6392 root cwd DIR 0,15 2200 4 /mnt/user/Movies smbd 6458 nobody cwd DIR 0,15 304 5 /mnt/user/Rest smbd 6460 root cwd DIR 0,15 3888 6 /mnt/user/Series find 23038 root cwd DIR 0,15 144 154143 /mnt/user/Rest/Music/Profane Omen root@TheMonolith:~# lsof /mnt/disk* ie. second command gave no output. I'm not familiar with the command, but it seems to list open files according to google. Don't know how to interpret the results, though. The shares listed above span all disks, so if they are kept open by some process, that would explain why the disks won't spin down.
March 7, 201412 yr Personally I use "cache_dirs" and if your using windows I noticed if you turn on "Always show static icons of files and never show thumbnail previews of files" in the folder settings on Windows it doesn't seem to ever spin up the drives when browsing.
March 7, 201412 yr Author Personally I use "cache_dirs" and if your using windows I noticed if you turn on "Always show static icons of files and never show thumbnail previews of files" in the folder settings on Windows it doesn't seem to ever spin up the drives when browsing. I use cache dirs as mentioned in OP. I don't use Windows, and the disks are spun up even after overnight or full day of no use, except for the cache disk. Only the parity drive spins down.
March 7, 201412 yr I use cache dirs as mentioned in OP. I don't use Windows, and the disks are spun up even after overnight or full day of no use, except for the cache disk. Only the parity drive spins down. Try disabling cache dirs. I'm willing to bet it's not letting your drives spin down, you probably just have too many files to keep the entire directory tree in RAM.
March 7, 201412 yr Author I use cache dirs as mentioned in OP. I don't use Windows, and the disks are spun up even after overnight or full day of no use, except for the cache disk. Only the parity drive spins down. Try disabling cache dirs. I'm willing to bet it's not letting your drives spin down, you probably just have too many files to keep the entire directory tree in RAM. I have folder depth set at only 4 levels, and I have 8 gigs of memory, so there should be plenty of room. Nevertheless, I disabled folder caching to see if that helps!
March 8, 201412 yr Author After disabling folder caching disks started spinning down! But now the problem is obvious: they spin up whenever I even glance at shares. I'll try a lower caching depth to see if that helps to get caching to work along with drives spinning down.
March 8, 201412 yr If any of your shares have a particularly large number of files on it you could use the option to exclude it from cache_dirs caching. I have mine set up so that only shares contains video are handled by cache_dirs and my drives spin down fine.
March 8, 201412 yr Author If any of your shares have a particularly large number of files on it you could use the option to exclude it from cache_dirs caching. I have mine set up so that only shares contains video are handled by cache_dirs and my drives spin down fine. That might be it. Lightroom creates a ridiculous number of thumbnail preview files, so I can exclude that.
March 14, 201412 yr Author If any of your shares have a particularly large number of files on it you could use the option to exclude it from cache_dirs caching. I have mine set up so that only shares contains video are handled by cache_dirs and my drives spin down fine. Seems like that was the case. Instead of exclusions, I used include flags for movie and TV-series shares, and now disks spin down as expected. Thank you!
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