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Something else that you might want to do is count the number of journal commits that are taking place, via a command like this: perf stat -e jbd2:jbd2_start_commit -a sleep 3600 This will count the number of jbd2 commits are executed in 3600 seconds --- i.e., an hour. If you are running some workload which is constantly calling fsync(2), that will be forcing journal commits, and those turn into cache flush commands that force all state to stable storage. N...

On Oct 8, 2014, at 10:28 AM, Jelle de Jong <jelledejong at powercraft.nl> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I been using CF cards for almost more then 7 years now with ext > file-system without any major problems on ALIX boards. > > Last year I took 30 other systems in production with ext4 and the CF > cards been dropping out pretty fast, it may have been a bad batch but

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello everyone, I been using CF cards for almost more then 7 years now with ext file-system without any major problems on ALIX boards. Last year I took 30 other systems in production with ext4 and the CF cards been dropping out pretty fast, it may have been a bad batch but I do want to look at it. I don't think the devices writes a lot of IO (is