Too fast "housekeeping" prevents harddrive from sleeping

[Stefan K.]

udisks2 has a function called housekeeping where regular stuff is done. In example refreshing SMART data from attached drives. Currently it has a timeout of ten minutes. The old udisks(1) was more relax and waited thirty minutes. Therefore I have to let my drives sleep after ten minutes at maximum before SMART data is fetched. Usually this is a bit fast. I´m unsure whether desktop drives like these tight cycles as laptop devices do.

If anybody thinks like me, patching is easy. Have a look at "udiskslinuxprovider.c" in the src folder. Around line 470 is the "housekeeping timeout" set to 10*60 seconds. Reset to a value you like and recompile the package. I guess it won´t harm, if you update SMART every thirty minutes instead of ten :)

Description: Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS
Release: 14.04

udisks2:
  Installiert: 2.1.3-1ubuntu0.1
  Installationskandidat: 2.1.3-1ubuntu0.1
  Paket-Pinning: 2.1.3-1ubuntu0.1
  Versionstabelle:
 *** 2.1.3-1ubuntu0.1 1001
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.1.3-1 1001
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

[Graeme Hewson (ghewson)]

See also https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udisks2/+bug/1281588/comments/11