[vdr] Re: Commands executed in connection with timers

[Emil Naepflein <Emil.Naepflein@philosys.de>]

On Mon, 17 Sep 2001 12:09:12 +0100, Mathias Born
<mborn@faphida.in-berlin.de> wrote:

> I'm recording my videos to a reiserfs-disk. In addition, I want to
> spin down this disk when there is no disk activity. For this reason
> I'm using noflushd which suspends every delayed disk access until
> there is real disk activity caused by the user.

Do you really think it is a good idea to spin up and down the disks so
often?

My expierence with disks drives in many systems for nearly 20 years now
is that you get the longest lifetime on systems that run the disks
continuosly.

And stopping todays disks does not save much power. 

If you really want to do this I would propose to have some idle time
after a timer finishes before stopping a disk to avoid to many start and
stops.

Just a thought.

Emil