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
> 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
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