Hello,
On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 10:24:44AM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> i have encrypted my HDD's (*) data partition. Now the disk access LED is
> blinking rapidly as soon as i mount it.
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?
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=bfff68738f1cb5c93dab1114634cea02aae9e7ba
https://www.thomas-krenn.com/en/wiki/Ext4_Filesystem#Lazy_Initialization
Create with:
mkfs.ext4 -E lazy_itable_init=0,lazy_journal_init=0 …
to avoid this sort of thing.
Cheers,
Andy
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