On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 08:09:14PM -0700, John R Pierce wrote:
On 10/7/2014 5:54 PM, Fred Smith wrote:
...probably left some jbd2 thread hanging loose...
one of the googled articles on jdb2 errors that I read suggested there have been kernel bugs which caused the journal writer to go nuts and constantly write stuff. that article was on an archlinux forum, and I didn't bother to read up on what kernel versions were affected.
thanks, John!
saw that one, but didn't read it, AFAICT it wasn't doing that, but "merely" wouldn't let go of the drive