On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 06:55:32PM +0200, Petre Rodan wrote: > > Hello, > > I have a problem with a hard drive that never managed to spin > down. this drive is a storage space, not a system disk, the only > thing that generated writes is the nfs server that exports its > contents. it has only one large xfs partition on it. > > upon closer inspection it turns out that after the first Write > action to that partition, an xfssyncd process continues to write > to that partition each 36 seconds and it doesn't stop doing that, > even if there are no more Writes from the exterior. this keeps the > drive busy with varying consequences. more about that later. Should be fixed in 2.6.37 by the commit: 1a387d3 xfs: dummy transactions should not dirty VFS state Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
