[SOLVED] Re: Riddling activity on encrypted and mounted partition

Hi, Andy Smith wrote: > your reply doesn't make it clear to me whether the > lazy init was the cause of your writes or not. It seems so. The disk is mounted without i/o being counted in /sys/block/sda/sda2/stat . If only half of the 733702 write ops of mkfs.ext4 were due to lazy_*=0, then they

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Riddling activity on encrypted and mounted partition

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 >

[SOLVED] Re: Riddling activity on encrypted and mounted partition

Hi, Andy Smith wrote: > Could it possibly be the lazy init feature of ext4, which is enabled > by default and can sometimes result in several minutes of background > writes to a newly-created fs? Well, the blinking went on for at least an hour. > Create with: >mkfs.ext4 -E