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So I was looking into this problem for someone else and what it looks like I found is if you have a jail running the hard drives will not sleep. This seems a bit hard to swallow since I haven't heard of any complaints and the hard drives not spinning down usually gets a lot of attention.
First this is for FreNAS 9.1.1 Release on my real NAS (specs in my tagline).
Through a lot of investigative work it looks like this is true and I'd like someone else to confirm this as it could be only on my machine.
What I've done was installed the MiniDLNA plugin which creates a single jail. I monitored the hard drive status using smartctl and set my idle for 5 minutes in the GUI and also for good measure I used the ataidle command a few times just to ensure the GUI did work (the GUI does work). I setup a script to automate the monitoring as well.
With the MiniDLNA installed the drives would not go into Standby. I removed the MiniDLNA plugin which also removed the jail and reran my tests and the hard drives go into Standby.
Next I installed only a jail. I didn't do any configuration of the jail, it was only running. The drives did not go into Standby. I stopped the jail and the drives go into Standby.
Now this may be just a side affect that we will have to accept when running a jail but this is new behavior from FreeNAS 8.x.
I did not reinstall FreeNAS 9.1.1 on my system so I cannot rule out some setting I have and I will not be reloading FreeNAS because I just brought my server back to the basement and it's staying there unless I have a problem that warrants it.
First this is for FreNAS 9.1.1 Release on my real NAS (specs in my tagline).
Through a lot of investigative work it looks like this is true and I'd like someone else to confirm this as it could be only on my machine.
What I've done was installed the MiniDLNA plugin which creates a single jail. I monitored the hard drive status using smartctl and set my idle for 5 minutes in the GUI and also for good measure I used the ataidle command a few times just to ensure the GUI did work (the GUI does work). I setup a script to automate the monitoring as well.
With the MiniDLNA installed the drives would not go into Standby. I removed the MiniDLNA plugin which also removed the jail and reran my tests and the hard drives go into Standby.
Next I installed only a jail. I didn't do any configuration of the jail, it was only running. The drives did not go into Standby. I stopped the jail and the drives go into Standby.
Now this may be just a side affect that we will have to accept when running a jail but this is new behavior from FreeNAS 8.x.
I did not reinstall FreeNAS 9.1.1 on my system so I cannot rule out some setting I have and I will not be reloading FreeNAS because I just brought my server back to the basement and it's staying there unless I have a problem that warrants it.