Simon, I have multiple terabytes of file storage at home. I'm looking to use an SSD to speed up access to the more frequently used data. Don't have the cash to upgrade to a full SSD environment. Simon> Avoid losing data by imaging the drive using Clonezilla. I do it all the Simon> time. Simon> On 11/09/2015 14:28, John Stoffel wrote: >>>>>>> "Joe" == Joe Thornber <thornber@redhat.com> writes: Joe> 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? Joe> No, this is not expected. The most likely cause is your system was Joe> not shutdown cleanly so dm-cache has no choice but to assume all Joe> blocks are dirty and need writing back. Make sure your volumes are Joe> being deactivated as part of shutdown. >> >> How would you double check to make sure this happening properly in the >> logs? I'm interested in using an SSD to cache my home file server >> /home and /local directories to make NFS access faster... but I've >> been hesitant to upgrade since I'd hate to lose all this data. >> >> John >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/ Simon> _______________________________________________ Simon> linux-lvm mailing list Simon> linux-lvm@redhat.com Simon> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm Simon> read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ _______________________________________________ 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/
