smartd keeps drives from sleeping -> set interval at startup ?

[david31262]

I believe smartd is keeping the drives from spinning down. Actually, My seagate drives seem to spin down ok, but the Hitachi do not.

I killed the smartd process and the drives are now spinning down ok.

Note: I modified ix-ataidle to add the "S" option:
if [ "${disk_hddstandby}" != "Always On" ]; then
(sleep 60; /usr/local/sbin/ataidle -S ${disk_hddstandby} ${disk_disks}) > /dev/null 2>&1 &
fi


settings for all drives (there are 12):
HDD Standby = 120
Adv pwr Management = 128
SMART = True
SMART Options: -n standby,q (keeps drive from kicking up when smartd hits in standby mode)

I'd like to be able to set the smartd run interval. Right now, I believe it's the default of every 30 minutes. I'm thinking every few days would be plenty. If I'm understanding the option, the "-i" must be used when smartd is launched (I suppose this is in ix-smartd, but I'm not understand how to modify the smartd launch).

A gui option to set the smartd interval would be helpful.

 

[William Grzybowski]

Smart GUI will be available in BETA3, so far it is not possible, unless you manually modify /conf/etc/rc.d/ix-smartd and restart.. (will not survive across upgrades)

 

[david31262]

Thanks.

I don't understand how "smard" is launched in "ix-smartd" (over my linux head). I assume it's the run command at the end. Can you give me an example of how to modify ix-smartd to run smartd with an interval, eg:

smartd -i 10000

(It sounds like this will not be a big deal with 8.1)

 

[William Grzybowski]

Yeah, actually ix-smartd generates the smartd.conf, you can tell smartd.conf to do not "scan" any device... or to scan them with -n standby

Raising the -i to a higher value (anything above 60 minutes) is not recommended tho, if you really want to change that it should be done in /etc/rc.conf.local
smartd_flags="-i 10000"