[arch-general] Solution for issues with "green" HDDs when gvfs is installed
Hi :) to help those who have "green" HDDs that can't keep asleep when gvfs is installed, I replaced the dummy package for gvfs I had installed by the real gvfs package and try to solve this issue by another method. There absolutely in no need to install gvfs on my machine, but since there's a "green" EU Regulation, soon or later more people will experience that their "green" drives will spin down and up again and again. The assumption is that it's udisks that wakes up sleeping drives, for gvfs seemingly configurable by /usr/share/gvfs/remote-volume-monitors/. This assumption might be wrong. $ systemctl status udisks udisks.service - UDisks Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/udisks.service; disabled) Active: inactive (dead) $ cat /usr/share/gvfs/remote-volume-monitors/udisks2.monitor [RemoteVolumeMonitor] Name=GProxyVolumeMonitorUDisks2 DBusName=org.gtk.Private.UDisks2VolumeMonitor IsNative=true NativePriority=4 What are "IsNative" and "NativePriority" for? I still search myself, but any hints are welcome, to disable _what ever_ wakes up such "green" drives. Without gvfs those drives keep asleep. Regards, Ralf
The assumption that udisks does wakes up sleeping drives seems to be wrong, since when using this script, the drive will spin up after a while: $ cat /usr/local/bin/gvfst-rvm #!/bin/bash gvfst_sudo="" if [ "$(id -u)" != "0" ]; then gvfst_sudo="sudo" fi case $1 in status) if test -f /usr/share/gvfs/remote-volume-monitors/udisks2.monitor; then echo "enabled" else echo "disabled" fi ;; start) $gvfst_sudo mv /root/udisks2.monitor /usr/share/gvfs/remote-volume-monitors ;; stop) $gvfst_sudo mv /usr/share/gvfs/remote-volume-monitors/udisks2.monitor /root ;; *) echo "gvfs tool to disable and enable usage of udisks2 remote volume monitor" echo "gvfst-rvm [start|stop|status]" ;; esac exit $ pacman -Ql gvfs | grep gvfsd gvfs /usr/lib/gio/modules/libgvfsdbus.so gvfs /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd gvfs /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-archive gvfs /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-burn gvfs /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-cdda gvfs /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-computer gvfs /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-dav gvfs /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-dnssd gvfs /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-ftp gvfs /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-fuse gvfs /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-http gvfs /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-localtest gvfs /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-metadata gvfs /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-network gvfs /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-recent gvfs /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-sftp gvfs /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-trash gvfs /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/gvfsd-fuse-tmpfiles.conf gvfs /usr/share/man/man1/gvfsd-fuse.1.gz gvfs /usr/share/man/man1/gvfsd-metadata.1.gz gvfs /usr/share/man/man1/gvfsd.1.gz When Mate or Xfce is running, all running gvfs daemons are stopped by $ killall gvfsd gvfsd-metadata gvfsd-trash on my machine, but they will be automatically restarted after a while. However, Xfce isn't the problem, thunar doesn't have a hard dependency to gvfs, but Cinnamon's nemo and Mate's caja have got. At the moment I can't continue, but I keep an eye on it. Regards, Ralf
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:06 PM, Ralf Mardorf
Hi :)
to help those who have "green" HDDs that can't keep asleep when gvfs is installed, I replaced the dummy package for gvfs I had installed by the real gvfs package and try to solve this issue by another method.
There absolutely in no need to install gvfs on my machine, but since there's a "green" EU Regulation, soon or later more people will experience that their "green" drives will spin down and up again and again.
The assumption is that it's udisks that wakes up sleeping drives, for gvfs seemingly configurable by /usr/share/gvfs/remote-volume-monitors/. This assumption might be wrong.
$ systemctl status udisks udisks.service - UDisks Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/udisks.service; disabled) Active: inactive (dead)
$ cat /usr/share/gvfs/remote-volume-monitors/udisks2.monitor [RemoteVolumeMonitor] Name=GProxyVolumeMonitorUDisks2 DBusName=org.gtk.Private.UDisks2VolumeMonitor IsNative=true NativePriority=4
What are "IsNative" and "NativePriority" for?
I still search myself, but any hints are welcome, to disable _what ever_ wakes up such "green" drives.
Without gvfs those drives keep asleep.
Regards, Ralf
It may or may not help you, but I started using linker magic for everything. did you start reading the gvfsd source? Write me off-list and we can try sorting this out... cheers! mar77i
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