Dev log for 3.8-14

suman · May 1, 2016, 7:41pm

Happy sunday everyone! 3.8-13.06 is now available.

@phillxnet added a big feature: HDD power down based on idle time. This is perhaps for the advanced users who like to spin their drives down to reduce noise and power consumption at times. The feature is wonderfully documented on the pull request page. This is a big enough feature that deserves more documentation and tutorials in the form of wiki, blog, youtube videos etc… it’s exciting.

Thanks to @maxhq for helping with code review and also for contributing a pull request to sort Shares by name. This default improves UX when choosing a Share, for example: rock-on configuration, samba exports etc…

github.com/rockstor/rockstor-core

drive power down interface

opened 01:51PM - 14 Sep 15 UTC

closed 06:11PM - 01 May 16 UTC

phillxnet

Major Feature

Currently it seems the only way to set / enable drive powerdown is via cli hdpar…m commands. Now that Rockstor has hdparm by default we can add a facility to set this figure on each device. Issues:- Drive names change but that is dealt with at some level elsewhere I am just not sure how we translate that to the device parameter that hdparm takes, presumably via the same function that shows the drive name in Disks table. Reasons:- Power / noise save. Avoid users having to enter eg /sbin/hdparm -S120 /dev/sdb above initrock -x entries in /etc/rc.local to enable 10 min power down. (a value of 239 sets a 20 mins power down) Obvious place to add this interface might be an additional column or icon in Disks. This might then also equate to the current power state. I believe smart can relay the drives current power state so we could poll from that database but I think it better to have a dedicated entry / mechanism for power setting / state read as then lighter and can be polled without drawing in all of the smart data. Options in this drive setting - set how long before drive enters sleep (no disk motor activity) state and an instant sleep mode option on each / all drives.

github.com/rockstor/rockstor-core

Sort shares by name in UI

rockstor:master ← maxhq:maxhq-patch-sort-shares

opened 02:09PM - 21 Oct 15 UTC

maxhq

+10 -3

The share list in _Storage - Shares_ or in the dropdown on _Storage - Samba_ is …now sorted by name per default - IMHO this gives a nicer overview. This is done by making the API (class `ShareListView`) accept any object attribute in URL parameter `sortby`. To discuss: If sorting is not considered a relevant overhead even for a large number of shares, we could set a default server-side sorting by attribute `name`. Currently, if `sortby` URL parameter is NOT given, no sorting takes place.