Re: [Bug #12224] journal activity on inactive partition causes inactive harddrive spinup

Theodore Tso
2009-02-05T02:00:13Z

On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 11:58:33AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
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> Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12224
> Subject : journal activity on inactive partition causes inactive harddrive spinup
> Submitter : C Sights <csights-97jfqw80gc6171pxa8y+qA@public.gmane.org>
> Date : 2008-12-14 11:39 (53 days old)
> First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=c87591b719737b4e91eb1a9fa8fd55a4ff1886d6
> Handled-By : Eric Sandeen <sandeen-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>

Patches against ext3 have been posted by Jan Kara and have been sucked
into the mm tree. I don't know if Andrew is planning on waiting until
the next merge window, or is planning on pushing it sooner given that
it is a regression. (These supercede the ones currently posted by
Eric in the BZ entry.)

Similar patches have been posted against ext4, and I will be handling
them in the ext4 tree.

- Ted