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hdparm ignoring spindown_time in config when called with by-id symlink

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Hi.


My PC has two disks, a NVME for Debian/testing and an old 2.5 drive for 
an OS that shall remain nameless :)

Since the 2.5 disc isn't at all used by Linux, I figured I might as well 
set a very aggressive spindown time of, say, 30s and I wrote this in 
hdparm.conf:

/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Hitachi_HTS543225A7A384____E2024242DBNGWJ_ {
     apm = 1
     spindown_time = 6
}

To check whether the entry was applied, first I manually set the 
spindown to 1 unit, that is 5s, woke the drive up with cfdisk, confirmed 
it was active with hdparm -C, waited 5s, confirmed it was in standby.
So if the drive sleeps just 5s I'll know the change was ignored.


Then I tried checking whether hdparm would work when run via udev, with 
the following command:
DEVNAME=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Hitachi_HTS543225A7A384____E2024242DBNGWJ_ 
/lib/udev/hdparm  >> /tmp/hdparm.log 2>&1
(suggestion taken from: 
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49841690/hdparm-conf-settings-dont-seem-to-run-at-boot)

No go:
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Hitachi_HTS543225A7A384____E2024242DBNGWJ_:
  setting Advanced Power Management level to 0xfe (254)
  APM_level	= 254
More importantly, the drive is still on 5s spindown.
I've tried with the apm option and without, no changes.
I've manually verified the by-id link, checks out.


However, if I invoke the udev script with /dev/sdb, the output confirms 
it is working:
/dev/sdb:
  setting Advanced Power Management level to 0x01 (1)
  setting standby to 6 (30 seconds)
  APM_level	= 1



Now, the questions:
1) am I wrong in using the by-id link to achieve a stable configuration?
2) am I wrong in testing with the symlink instead of the real device name?
3) if not, should I file a bug on hdparm?


Other relevant bugs:
#725884: in my case, running hdparm manually works just fine, it's the 
udev script that seems to fail somehow
#795025: my drive does not return any error when hdparm is run with 
"verbose"
#880008: interesting...



Thanks,
Andrea.

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hdparm ignoring spindown_time in config when called with by-id  symlink Andrea Borgia <andrea@borgia.bo.it> - 2019-01-01 20:40 +0100
  Re: hdparm ignoring spindown_time in config when called with by-id  symlink Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2019-01-02 12:20 +0100
    Re: hdparm ignoring spindown_time in config when called with by-id  symlink Andrea Borgia <andrea@borgia.bo.it> - 2019-01-02 13:40 +0100
      Re: hdparm ignoring spindown_time in config when called with by-id  symlink Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2019-01-02 14:40 +0100
        Re: hdparm ignoring spindown_time in config when called with by-id  symlink Andrea Borgia <andrea@borgia.bo.it> - 2019-01-02 16:00 +0100

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