From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Matt Garman <matthew.garman@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: linux disk access when idle
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:31:13 -0500
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On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 12:35:19PM -0400, Foster_Brian@emc.com wrote:
> > There is some for of flag you can apply to see write requests and the
> > application that is doing them.......?
> > 
> 
> You might find this useful:
> 
> echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/block_dump
> 
> Then watch your syslog files...

Thank you.  That along with Ric Wheeler's suggestion of blktrace
ought to help me get to the bottom of this.

Thanks again!
Matt