HDD disk use after reboot , 100% for hours

[tfoutfou]

Hi , i am new to the forum , operator for 3/4 months

I would like to know how it is working exactly , because after each reboot (pretty fast but sometimes necessary on the computer that run storj) (windows update , restart to flush the ram , and so on) the HDD where my STORJ directory is , get hammered like crazy for hours and hours.

is it really necessary ?
can it be disabled ?
is it doing a checksum on every single files of the node ?

Thanks

[jammerdan]

Tuning the filewalker

The commonly called filewalker process, which is the functionality that goes over all pieces of the storage node’s blob folder seeking the metadata and looking for expired pieces, is basically smashing the spinning drives every time a node is restarted (both on manual restart and/or automatic upgrade). Due to the way Storj files are stored (folders with thousands of files that are created/deleted) causes some issues on Ext4 filesystems after some months of operation. They do not only cause file…

Tuning the filewalker

The pull request have been merged! On the next release we will be able to control the initial filewalker process with: storage2.piece-scan-on-startup: true|false on the config!

Check out it this helps.