mounted external ext4 causes "high" kworker cpu

[Chris Murphy]

On Jun 1, 2012, at 8:35 AM, Jeff Moyer wrote:

>> This is happening on internal disks, targeted for Fedora
>> installation. I can hear it once install is complete, still booted
>> from DVD media. Is this a bug?
> 
> So long as the file system is mounted and the itable initialization is
> not complete, I would expect the initialization to continue.  Does that
> answer your question?

I supposed it does. It just surprises me this behavior goes on for so long, something like 15 minutes after default installation from DVD.


Chris Murphy