Re: Long wait for start job

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On 16Jun2021 10:17, Tom Horsley <horsley1953@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On Wed, 16 Jun 2021 14:46:42 +0100
>Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>> I haven't seen any errors, so it's probably a feature rather than a 
>> bug
>> with this drive.
>
>I have two USB drives on my system, and one of them takes about
>30 seconds to spin up. It is very annoying when I'm rebooting the
>system but it decides it has to spin up the unmounted drive
>before it can finish. I can understand the need to scan everything
>when it boots up, but can't imagine why it needs to scan everything
>on the way down.

I've seen systems need to spin up drive to umount then - to sync the fs.  
Even for an idle fs the kernel seems to want something, maybe formally 
closing a journal or something?

To test, do a sync, wait for the drive to spin down, then umount. See 
what happens during the umount.

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx>
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