On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 11:30:27AM +0200, Stefan Ring wrote: > Is this normal/expected? What does it do? Why does it write back huge > amounts of data to the HDD after each system start? No, this is not expected. The most likely cause is your system was not shutdown cleanly so dm-cache has no choice but to assume all blocks are dirty and need writing back. Make sure your volumes are being deactivated as part of shutdown. - Joe _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/