Hey everyone
I’ve just set up a shiny new fileserver with ZFS+Samba on CentOS. However, its not very often I access this data, only for about 2-3 hours daily.
I’d like to know if there’s a way to allow the server to sleep/suspend when idle, and wake again whenever a windows SMB client performs an action or accesses the share?
I was able to do this with FreeNAS.
Currently, when I manually suspend the server from the CentOS GUI, the server doesn’t wake with any client file share activity. Only when I press on the keyboard or move the mouse on the server.
Is this something to do with “Wake On LAN”?
Thanks for the help
I’d also like to note that I’m not interested in any sort of HDD spindown.
My main issue is with the noise that comes from 11 fans. Currently, I have no choice but to put the server next to my workstation. Which is also in the bedroom.
The fans all turn off during suspend, but as I mentioned earlier, I need a way to wake from LAN activity. Or is this not possible?
I’d say putting a server-type device in the bedroom is a bad idea, but I guess I should be more constructive. Have you considered moving to a less noisy case/ case with less noisy fans?
Wake On LAN might be able to help, but remember that servers can take some time to boot. You wouldn’t get immediate availability.