Tool of the Day: Spindown
Spindown is a daemon that can spindown idle disks and so
saving energy and giving the disks a longer lifetime. It works
by checking how many blocks are read and written from the
disks. When no blocks are read or written the disk is idle.
When a disk stays idle long enough spindown uses sg_start
to spin the disk down. It also works with usb disks and
hotswappable disks because it doesn't watch the device name
(hda, sdb, ...), but the device id. This means that it doesn't matter
if the disk is swapped while the deamon is running.
features:
- Configure every disk separately
- Logging trough syslog
- Easy to configure
- Spindown hot swappable disks
Home page: http://code.google.com/p/spindown/
regards,
dhanasekar
