seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I bet it is fam. > > disable fam and see if it continues. Gordon wrote; > Nautilus is stat()ing /etc/mtab. /etc's atime is being updated. The > journal is flushing. Grodon is right. I complained about this a year ago, how can a linux hard drive ever go into power saving mode when keep stat()ing /etc/mtab. There is another stat() which should have been used by Nautilus that doesn't change the atime of a file (according to the author of the ext filesystem, Steven Tweedie). Nautilus should have been using that other function or switch to using fam. Fam does not access the disk itself, it tells a subscribing program that a certain file has changed. I have no idea why the nautilus guys haven't fix this. -eric wood
