zfs discuss - Oct 2009 - Hot Spares spin down?

Sorry if this is a noob question but I can''t seem to find this info
anywhere.

Are hot spares generally spunned down until they are needed?
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Hi there,

On Oct 8, 2009, at 9:46 PM, bjbm wrote:
> Sorry if this is a noob question but I can''t seem to find this
info
> anywhere.
>
> Are hot spares generally spunned down until they are needed?
No, but have a look at power.conf(4) and the device-thresholds keyword  
to spin down disks.

Here is a bigadmin article also:
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/articles/disk_power_saving.jsp

Regards

Henrik
http://sparcv9.blogspot.com
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