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On Sunday 31 July 2011 17:05:39 Michael Mol wrote: |
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> However, if it's doing that, then it probably has something it needs to |
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> write to disk. That might be metadata updates. |
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What, at least once a minute? While the system's idling, waiting for |
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something to do? Doesn't sound likely to me. |
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> Have you tried adding things to your mount parameters like 'noatime' or |
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> 'relatime'? |
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I've been specifying 'noatime' on all partitions for several years now; it's |
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automatic behaviour on my part. |
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> What about "data=writeback"? |
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I don't like the sound of the warning in the man page. |
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Thanks for the ideas. So far I'm inclining to the reformatting I mentioned. |
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Rgds |
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Peter Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23 |
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