On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 13:17:50 +0100, Tino Keitel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> sometimes I notice that a process called thunar-vfs-mime causes my hard
> disk to spin up, according to the kernel log after
> echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/block_dump:
> 
> <7>thunar-vfs-mime(8315): dirtied inode 3269093 (applications) on dm-5
> <7>thunar-vfs-mime(8315): dirtied inode 3268654 (defaults.list.CEFS6U)
> on dm-5
> <7>thunar-vfs-mime(8315): WRITE block 107040736 on dm-5
> <7>thunar-vfs-mime(8315): dirtied inode 3268657 (?) on dm-5
> 2010-01-26_12:12:15.71294 Spinning up /dev/sda after 4 minutes.
> <7>flush-254:4(1196): WRITE block 455352 on dm-4
> 2010-01-26_12:13:15.71760 Spinning down /dev/sda.

Minor addition: the PID changes each time, so it seems to be triggered
by some other service.

Regards,
Tino
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