[Voyage-linux] root being remounted every 5 minutes?

[Jeff Ramin]

That is entirely possible - I never used to see this message, and I was 
using
ext2 in the past.

Aren't there options for avoiding/reducing journal usage? Here is how it 
is mounted:

/dev/disk/by-label/ROOT_FS on / type ext3 
(ro,relatime,errors=continue,data=writeback)

I have all my writable directories listed in /etc/default/voyage-util. 
So, theoretically,
if somebody just removed power from the machine, the directories that I 
don't want
to lose data from would be restored even if I used ext2, right?


On 03/10/2011 10:17 AM, Gustin Johnson wrote:
> My first guess is that writing to the journal on EXT3 requires the FS
> to be writable.  We use EXT2 on all of our flash based media to
> minimize the number of writes.
>
> We once had a similar issue but it was an incorrectly formatted cron
> entry.  We have a custom script that remounts the FS as writable, then
> does an aptitude update, package download, and simulates an install,
> then emails the results.  The error in crontab caused this to be run
> every 5 minutes instead of once a day.
>
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Jeff Ramin<jeff.ramin at singlewire.com>  wrote:
>> I have voyage 0.6.5 running on an Alix board, and I'm seeing / get
>> remounted every 5 minutes, like so:
>>
>> Mar 10 08:10:54 singlewire vmunix: [603042.739714] EXT3 FS on hda1, internal
>> journal
>> Mar 10 08:15:56 singlewire vmunix: [603344.099594] EXT3 FS on hda1, internal
>> journal
>> Mar 10 08:21:06 singlewire vmunix: [603653.940611] EXT3 FS on hda1, internal
>> journal
>> Mar 10 08:26:07 singlewire vmunix: [603954.829327] EXT3 FS on hda1, internal
>> journal
>> Mar 10 08:31:07 singlewire vmunix: [604255.186788] EXT3 FS on hda1, internal
>> journal
>> Mar 10 08:36:17 singlewire vmunix: [604565.619638] EXT3 FS on hda1, internal
>> journal
>> Mar 10 08:41:19 singlewire vmunix: [604866.874019] EXT3 FS on hda1, internal
>> journal
>>
>> Anybody know why this is happening? Nothing in crontab would be causing it.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
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>> Jeff Ramin
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>> Singlewire Software
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Jeff Ramin
Software Engineer
Singlewire Software
2601 W Beltline Hwy #510
Madison, WI 53713

Phone Direct - 608.661.1172
www.singlewire.com