On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 01:02:35PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Andy Smith wrote: > > Create with: > > mkfs.ext4 -E lazy_itable_init=0,lazy_journal_init=0 > > This lasts significantly longer than my first mkfs run. > The drive makes ~ 1950 write operations per second. So i estimate that > the job would have lasted hours with ~ 16 writes per second. > In the end mkfs.ext4 caused 733702 write ops on the 3.6 TB partition. > > Ok. New UUID into fstab ... mount ... mkdir ... touch ... Yay ! > > The i/o is still lazy (no wonder with 32 GB RAM), but after about a minute > i see no newly counted writes. > > Thanks a lot !
No problem, but your reply doesn't make it clear to me whether the lazy init was the cause of your writes or not. Maybe I just lack the reading comprehension. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting