Ansible role: hd_idle

Install hd-idle from source. This program is useful to spin down harddrives after a given timeout of inactivity. This can save power and maybe extend the lifespan of the spinning disk.

Requirements

Operating system support for /proc/diskstats, Debian compatibility.

Role Variables

Available variables are listed below, along with default values (see defaults/main.yml):

hd_idle_version: 1.05

The version to install. If changed, hd_idle_checksum also needs to be adapted.

hd_idle_checksum: sha256:4efefe79d145b50e055582730d9d685e485da3df3dad90fef030036d52aa3a0c

The checksum. We do this to enable trust in the downloaded code as well as enabling downloads without https cert verification (which is problematic on old python installs).

hd_idle_compile_dir: /tmp/hd_idle

The directory to use for compilation purposes.

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

- hosts: raspberrypis
  roles:
     - { role: infothrill.hd_idle }

Changelog

2.1.0

• Code linted to modern standards and minor security risks adressed (file permissions)
• Drop support for ansible older than 5
• Drop support for python older than 3.8
• Switch to Github Actions for CI

2.0.2

• Drop support for ansible older than 2.9
• Upgrade molecule to 3.0.x
• added support for ansible 2.10, 3.0
• add support for python 3.7+

2.0.1

• increase timeout for download to 60 sec
• explicitly set owner of unpacked source code to root

2.0.0

• dropped support for ansible 2.4
• added support for ansible 2.8
• switched testing toolchain to python 3.6
• upgraded molecule and ansible-lint

1.4.1

• added testing for ansible 2.8
• added experimental test for debian buster

1.4.0

• added basic lint/syntax test using travis
• renamed role to hd_idle (from hd-idle)

1.3

• added test for ansible 2.6

1.2.0

• added test for ansible 2.4, 2.5
• dropped support for ansible 2.1
• upgraded molecule to 2.15
• added test for debian stretch 9.4

1.2.0

• upgraded molecule
• fixed molecule paybook

1.1.0

• added test for ansible 2.3
• fixed deprecation warnings in ansible 2.3

1.0.0

• initial release

License

MIT

Author Information

This role was created in 2017 by Paul Kremer.