On 01/22/2013 08:25 AM, Pat Riehecky wrote:
>
> The 'atime' suite of mount options has sometimes manifested this
> behavior on my systems.
>
> I'd check and make sure you've got those set correctly (off).
>
> Perhaps the constant writing is to update these access times.... perhaps
> not.  You're right, the linux-kvm folks seem like the right audience.
>
> Pat

*That* is an interesting suggestion!  I'll go back and remount the Host 
array with atime disabled (since it's probably not useful in this case).

If it's the virtual machine atime that is the cause, I have no control 
over how the virtual disks are mounted ... m0n0wall and pfSense hide all 
that stuff.

One of the other SL-6 VM host machines is running all Linux VMs, so I 
should go thru all the fstabs and shut off atime.  I can't remember the 
last time I even cared about that timestamp.

Chuck