https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42895 --- Comment #12 from Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> 2012-05-15 14:54:40 --- (In reply to comment #11) > Enabling ext4_mark_inode_dirty gives me constant flood of events where > xfce4-terminal dirties mostly two same inodes: > http://paste.ubuntu.com/988896/ > Is it expected behavior? This is default terminal in Xubuntu. Yeah, forgot about it. Sorry for extra work. Terminal writes to some pipe inode or socket when it outputs to the screen... Just create tmpfs if you don't have one (e.g. mkdir /tmp/mem; mount -t tmpfs none /tmp/mem/) and then gather the output like "cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_pipe >/tmp/mem/dirty_trace". BTW writing to sockets or named pipes is often source of filesystem modifications because mtime of those inodes change - e.g. postfix is causing these relatively frequently, xfce4-terminal is another such case. It's a bit tricky to avoid these because I'd be recluctant to completely stop updating mtime on socket/pipe inodes as some strange tool may rely on that. But I've got some idea which may work so if this is indeed the problem, I can look at it again. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are watching the assignee of the bug. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
