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?
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ps: I know spin down/up isn’t good
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.