Thanks, but better spare your brains for a more worthy cause :-) I've been trying to make sense of it too, but failed so far. It doesn't seem matter if data has actually changed, and parity calculated, of if Update exits immediately. In the example above, DRU3 was the only one with new files, and it...

Ian, maybe I wasn't quite clear in the previous post, but that issue you mention doesn't exist anymore : once my drives are spun down, they stay that way until some cron process intentionally activates them (like a FlexRAID nightly parity update). The remaining issue is that they will not spin down ...

That's the reason (at least the rational one :-) I went with an SSD for the system disk. However, I'm still having a strange problem with the regular hard drives (DRU and PPU). If I spin them down explicitly (with hdparm -y), they now stay that way (thanks to your tip in another thread). But setting...

Great job ! Not only up to date, but simpler and more user-friendly... Have I mentioned that I'd been I'd been wanting to build myself a FlexRAID server for maybe a year, year and a half, but kept being put off by the sketchy (and Windows-biased) information on Openegg ?... Your site was the boost I...

Here's an example for hdparm as above : MyList='DRU1 DRU2 DRU3 PPU0' echo '' echo 'Setting data drives spin down delay' for i in $MyList do hdparm -S 240 /dev/disk/by-label/$i done ...and one for smartctl (disk temps) : MyList='SSD DRU1 DRU2 DRU3 PPU0' echo '' echo 'Drive temperatures:' for i in $My...

In my post above I may have tried too soon after deleting the direct connection. Later on I spun the disks down again and they stayed put. After being "woken" at night by FlexRAID for the scheduled update, they stayed active, so the hdpam.conf doesn't seem to work here either. I will adapt...

I forgot to mention another thing that may trip the unwary... The way the guide is set up, users first test FlexRAID by launching it manually, probably logged in as a regular user. If they carry on to configure their host in the web UI, the corresponding database (FlexRAID-Config.db) will be stored ...

Yup, the system SSD seemed like a good idea at the planning stage, but it does have its downsides...

Hence, partition UUIDs and labels FTW ! :-)

The "Disk" dropdown is clean, that was never the problem. But I didn't want to mount to that, because of the disk order issue I described in the other post. The problem was not being offered the partition ID for the last two disks like for the first two (and as a minor aside, the erroneous...

More fun with Ubuntu and disk drives... Here is something I noticed after adding all the disks. My motherboard has 5 SATA ports. Ports 1 to 4 are grouped together on the back panel, and port 5 sits by itself inside the motherboard. I plugged the system disk (SSD) in port 5 and the Samsung spindles i...