> I recently converted my home directory to zfs on an external disk drive.
> Approximately every three seconds I can hear the disk being accessed,
> even if I'm doing nothing. The noise is driving me crazy!
> [...]
> Anyway, anyone have any ideas of how I can use dtrace or some other tool
> to track this down?
Yes. Everything in ZFS is transactional, so it is not possible for
anyone to modify anything without first calling dmu_tx_create().
Therefore I suggest:
# dtrace -n 'dmu_tx_create:entry { trace(execname); stack() }'
to see what process is causing this.
Jeff
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