Re: Is there a way to keep the 2.6 kjournald from writing to idle disks? (to allow spin-downs)

[Lutz Vieweg <lkv@isg.de>]

Bart Samwel wrote:

>> Well, it's the o.p. system, not mine, but I don't see how noatime will
>> help him, the atime shouldn't change unless he's doing disk access, and
>> if he's doing disk access the disk will spin up anyway.

That's what I thought, too... and I really killed everything that I could
imagine accessing the disk... but...

> If something really is accessing the drive, noatime might still help as 
> long as the accesses are from the cache.

... that really helped! I'm kind of surprised, since I didn't use noatime
before the update, and I still don't know of any process that might do
the reading, but since mounting / with noatime helped, I'm happy for now.

My curiosity isn't completely gone, though, so maybe one day I'll try to
find out who-is-trying-to-read-what, "find -atime ..." didn't reveal the secret
yet.

Regards,

Lutz Vieweg