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From: Joe Thornber <thornber@redhat.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Strange dm-cache activity at startup
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 13:51:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150911125104.GA8027@rh-vpn> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAxjCEwMqpAWFc+BBNW6bLUC7mkjkjdvFkRz66WnZEB__qW2dw@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 11:30:27AM +0200, Stefan Ring wrote:
> Is this normal/expected? What does it do? Why does it write back huge
> amounts of data to the HDD after each system start?

No, this is not expected.  The most likely cause is your system was
not shutdown cleanly so dm-cache has no choice but to assume all
blocks are dirty and need writing back.  Make sure your volumes are
being deactivated as part of shutdown.

- Joe

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-09-11 12:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-10  9:30 [linux-lvm] Strange dm-cache activity at startup Stefan Ring
2015-09-10 12:59 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2015-09-10 13:11   ` Stefan Ring
2015-09-10 13:48     ` Zdenek Kabelac
2015-09-11 12:51 ` Joe Thornber [this message]
2015-09-11 13:28   ` John Stoffel
2015-09-11 14:50     ` Simon O'Riordan
2015-09-11 15:32       ` John Stoffel
2015-09-16  7:48   ` Stefan Ring
2015-09-17 15:08     ` Stefan Ring
2015-10-16 17:54   ` [linux-lvm] LVM cache (or dm-cache) shutdown Ian Pilcher
2015-10-17 17:49     ` Zdenek Kabelac

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