Hi, Ext4 is (slowly) initializing group blocks as far as I can remember. Patience should do the trick :) HTH, Le 3 février 2020 20:28:27 GMT+01:00, Chris Pemberton <pchris.bci@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit : >I updated my backup server this weekend from CentOS 7 to CentOS 8. >OS disk is SSD, /dev/md0 are two 4TB WD mechanical drives. >No hardware was changed. > >1. wiped all drives >2. installed new copy of 8 on system SSD >3. re-created the 4TB mirror /dev/md0 with the same WD mechanical >drives >4. created the largest single partition possible on /dev/md0 and >formatted >it ext4 >5. waited several hours for the creation of /dev/md0 to finish >6. copied all data back onto /dev/md0 > >Both installs were a full workstation, with Gnome. >The mirror is mounted via fstab as: >/dev/md0 /mnt/raid1 ext4 defaults 0 0 > >Under CentOS 7 the /dev/md0 mirror was silent when not in use. Now >under >8, the hard drives are constantly "pinged" by some process, at about >the >same frequency as a heartbeat monitor. I can not figure out what >process >is keeping them active. iotop does show a process named >[ext4lazyinput]. > >Is there something I've missed? >_______________________________________________ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx >https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Envoyé de mon appareil Android avec Courriel K-9 Mail. Veuillez excuser ma brièveté. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos