Wrong again, got exactly the bad behaviour on Ubuntu 13.10. It's perhaps not related to the issue that started this thread, but since I posted here I thought I might as well inform anyone visiting this that my solution didn't work.
My current thinking is that if you have an NFS4 server with clients attached, and you reboot the server without detaching the clients, you get the bad behaviour. If you umount the clients first, then reboot the server, then mount the clients, the problem doesn't occur. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/607560 Title: jbd2 writing block every 5 - 10 seconds, preventing disk spin-down and making noise To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/607560/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs