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Subject: [Bug 12224] journal activity on inactive partition causes inactive harddrive spinup
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 17:22:19 -0800 (PST)
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------- Comment #3 from anonymous@kernel-bugs.osdl.org  2008-12-14 17:22 -------
Reply-To: goswin-v-b@web.de

Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> writes:

> maj,min cpu  seq  time           pid   act rwbs off+len
> 8,0      0    1   0.000000000    1109   A   WS 14375 + 8 <- (8,1) 14312
>
> ... etc
>
> I'm not sure it gives us enough info; all we see is that there was an IO
> on sdb (from sdb1)
>
> I might suggest
>
> # sysctl -w vm.block_dump=1
>
> to see if you get any info about inodes on sda1 being dirtied.

Like atime/diratime updates?

> (Also, I didn't see any info about sda1 in the posted fstab...)
>
> -Eric

MfG
        Goswin


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