JFS and Constant Disk Access
 

Hello,

Hello,

I recently reformatted my Gentoo partition from ext3 into a JFS one, just to see how well the latter compares to the tried & true Linux fs. I've used the 'noatime,sync' options with the JFS, which now contains a fresh Ubuntu 5.10 install (I don't think this matters though, please read on). However, I notice that the disk-access red light on my case is constantly on, even when I'm away from the computer. I've checked the processes and nothing IO intensive seems to be going on. Mind you, this is not the chipmunks-in-a-hard-drive "Grrr...Grrr...Grrr" type of access, reminiscent of Windows. It's rather inaudible, yet something seems to be accessing the HD non-stop.
Has anybody else experienced this with JFS (or any other types of fs)? If so, what can I do to stop it?

Thanks


P.S: Are there any Windows utilities like explore2fs that will let me access my JFS files through WinXP?