jamesshuang
June 9th, 2009, 03:10 AM
Hi everyone, I've been thinking about building a very low power file server. In order to reduce power consumption, I was thinking of setting the hdparm to turn off the drives after a short while. In order to keep the drives from spinning up so often, I figured it would be efficient to have a mounting system that would cache the directory structure in memory or perhaps on another disk, and only have the disks spin up when an actual file is requested. Does something like this exist at all?