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From: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>
To: linux-btrfs <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>, jonas@lophus.org
Subject: Re: Writes in idle/How to debug filesystem activity
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 08:58:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E5C8A20.7030604@wpkg.org> (raw)

> I use btrfs on a SD card. When my computer is running in idle (i.e.
> nothing running but wmii and a few background tasks that don't do any
> i/o; freshly synced), from time to time some [btrfs-*] tasks do writes
> (for 5 seconds or so).  What are those processes doing on my disk,
> having nothing to write/read? That leads to the second question: How can
> I debug file system activity in inotify style?

There was once a similar thread about this issue; unfortunately, without 
any constructive answers:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.btrfs/10840


-- 
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org


             reply	other threads:[~2011-08-30  6:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-30  6:58 Tomasz Chmielewski [this message]
2011-08-30  7:06 ` Writes in idle/How to debug filesystem activity cwillu
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2011-08-29 20:13 Jonas H.

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