[Gllug] what is causing disk activity ?

[Peter Corlett]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 04:44:06PM +0000, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> Alain Williams wrote:
>> But I'm not updating anything on disk .... so why the writes ?
> That's how many journalling filesystems work.

It would be an unusual filesystem that elected to write stuff just for the
hell of it when there is no other system activity.

It's likely due to the filesystem not being mounted noatime, and a daemon or
application (such as a mail reader) is polling the filesystem and causing
updated atimes to be written out.

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