Hello all,

About a week or so ago I noticed that [btrfs-ino-cache] process was appearing in the 'top' on each reboot and disk is spinning like crazy for about five minutes or so. Quite so often this caused X failing to start because all I/O was busy with caching. Even after letting it to calm down and seeing [btrfs-ino-cache] disappearing from the process list, on next reboot it starts all over again.

Here is the fstab entry that I have

UUID=430dca92-9541-4201-0f62-373e30beadac / btrfs subvol=root_subvolume,defaults,noatime,noacl,compress=lzo,inode_cache,space_cache,autodefrag 0 0

inode_cache was always enabled since the FS was created about a year or so ago, and actually I have never had any problems with it up until recently.

Removing inode_cache option from fstab solves the problem, but I am not sure if it is the right choice. I can observe the problem at least in the vanilla kernel 3.10.4 ~ 6 (did not try older versions)

What could be the reason for such behavior and how to avoid it?

thanks
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