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From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>
To: Andy Bennett <andyjpb@ashurst.eu.org>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Disk spin down
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:36:51 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120213083651.GA40007@nsrc.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F3803B1.1090205@ashurst.eu.org>

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 06:23:45PM +0000, Andy Bennett wrote:
> Can someone help me work out where writes are coming from on my system?

Is the filesystem in question mounted with 'relatime' or 'noatime'?
Otherwise, merely reading a file will cause its inode to be dirtied.

(However in modern kernels, 'relatime' might be the default, I'm not sure)

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-02-13  8:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-12 18:23 Disk spin down Andy Bennett
2012-02-12 20:06 ` Dave Chinner
2012-02-12 21:15   ` Andy Bennett
2012-02-12 21:28     ` Andy Bennett
2012-02-12 22:35       ` Dave Chinner
2012-02-12 22:57         ` Andy Bennett
2012-02-13  8:36 ` Brian Candler [this message]
2012-02-13 23:41   ` Dave Chinner

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