xfssyncd keeps disks awake

[Andrew Lutomirski]

On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 12:49 AM, Andrew Lutomirski <luto at mit.edu> wrote:
> I have an XFS filesystem on RAID5 (actually XFS on LVM on dm-crypt on
> RAID5, but I doubt that matters).  Every few seconds, xfssyncd writes
> something, so my disks never spin down.  As far as I can tell, there
> is nothing at all accessing that partition.  (I can even unmount it.)

I found the other thread [1] right after I sent this.  Sigh.

I'll email back if the patch doesn't fix it for me.

--Andy

[1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/xfs/msg02948.html