Comment 68 for bug 435190

Created attachment 336227
"sysctl -w vm.block_dump=1" activity for sdb

Description of problem:

I have an internal SATA drive (sdb) that I only use for backups; it is otherwise unmounted. I have it set to spin down when idle.

Recently, I noticed taht the drive is not spinning down. I checked to see what was accessing it using "sysctl -w vm.block_dump=1" (see the attached who-io.log). It appeared to be devkit-disks-part-id.

I ran "devkit-disks --monitor-detail" (see attached devkit.log), and it appears that deviceKit is polling smart data, which keeps the drive from spinning down.

The device is not removable, and it's not in the list of polled drives:

# ps -Afl | grep devkit-disks-daemon | grep -v grep
4 S root 4326 1 0 80 0 - 0 poll_s 17:23 ? 00:00:02 /usr/libexec/devkit-disks-daemon
1 S root 4382 4326 0 80 0 - 0 poll_s 17:23 ? 00:00:03 devkit-disks-daemon: polling /dev/sdg /dev/sdf /dev/sr0 /dev/sde /dev/sr1 /dev/sdd

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

DeviceKit-disks-003-7.fc11.x86_64
DeviceKit-003-1.x86_64
DeviceKit-power-006-3.fc11.x86_64

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Unmount a drive
2.Set the spin down time
3.Watch nothing happen

Actual results:

Drives stay spun up, even when unmounted

Expected results:

Drives should spin down

Additional info: