High CPU and DISK load on mounting NTFS with hibernated WinXP

[Hedgehog_57]

Binary package hint: ntfs-3g

System: IBM Thinkpad T61P
OS: Dual boot WinXP SP3/Ubuntu 9.10
Reproductable: yes

Boot to winXP.
Hibernate it.
Boot Ubuntu.

menv@hedgehog-book:~$ iotop -o
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Total DISK READ: 39.27 M/s | Total DISK WRITE: 0.00 B/s
  TID PRIO USER DISK READ DISK WRITE SWAPIN IO>
   COMMAND
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As you can see no process use the disk, but something reads
40 M/s
menv@hedgehog-book:~$ top
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top - 17:13:56 up 22 min, 3 users, load average: 0.96,0.95, 0.86
Tasks: 174 total, 11 running, 163 sleeping, 0 stopped,  0 zombie
Cpu(s): 37.1%us, 24.1%sy, 0.0%ni, 13.5%id, 21.6%wa, 2.0%hi, 1.7%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 2040444k total, 956252k used, 1084192k free,   18444k buffers
Swap: 4558640k total, 0k used, 4558640k free,  257432k cached

  PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
21040 root 20 0 54580 14m 2364 R 19 0.7  2:46.93 devkit-disks-da
 1419 root 20 0 248m 35m 18m R 16 1.8  0:48.16 Xorg
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This is top output. Nothing interesting.

And now the problem:

menv@hedgehog-book:~$ ps -Af|grep winnt
root 26027 474 0 17:15 ? 00:00:00 mount -a -t ntfs -o defaults /dev/sda1 /media/winnt
root 26028 26027 0 17:15 ? 00:00:00 /sbin/mount.ntfs /dev/sda1 /media/winnt -o rw
menv 26030 28807 0 17:15 pts/0 00:00:00 grep winnt

menv@hedgehog-book:~$ ps -Af|grep winnt
menv 27223 28807 0 17:15 pts/0 00:00:00 grep winnt

menv@hedgehog-book:~$ ps -Af|grep winnt
menv 27591 28807 0 17:15 pts/0 00:00:00 grep winnt

menv@hedgehog-book:~$ ps -Af|grep winnt
menv 27821 28807 0 17:15 pts/0 00:00:00 grep winnt

menv@hedgehog-book:~$ ps -Af|grep winnt
root 28210 474 0 17:15 ? 00:00:00 mount -a -t ntfs -o defaults /dev/sda1 /media/winnt
root 28211 28210 0 17:15 ? 00:00:00 /sbin/mount.ntfs /dev/sda1 /media/winnt -o rw
menv 28213 28807 0 17:15 pts/0 00:00:00 grep winnt

This is infinite process. One mount die and new one is created.

This how to stop it. After this high CPU and DISK utilization are off.
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menv@hedgehog-book:~$ sudo mount /media/winnt
Windows is hibernated, refused to mount.
Failed to mount '/dev/sda1': Operation not permitted
The NTFS partition is hibernated. Please resume and shutdown Windows
properly, or mount the volume read-only with the 'ro' mount option, or
mount the volume read-write with the 'remove_hiberfile' mount option.
For example type on the command line:

            mount -t ntfs-3g -o remove_hiberfile /dev/sda1 /media/winnt

menv@hedgehog-book:~$ sudo mount -o ro /media/winnt
menv@hedgehog-book:~$ sudo umount /media/winnt
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The second NTFS partition (SDA5. not with hiberfil.sys file) is mounted normally during boot process.

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menv@hedgehog-book:~$ mount
/dev/sda7 on / type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
none on /dev/pts type devpts
(rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
none on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
none on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
/dev/sda6 on /boot type ext3 (rw,relatime)
/dev/sda5 on /media/data type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096)
/dev/sda8 on /home type ext3 (rw,relatime)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/menv/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=menv)
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[Dominik Stadler (dominik-stadler)]

It would be interesting which process constantly tries to mount the partition here, i.e. the parent process id 474 in above example (it will be a different one now most likely).

Maybe you can provide the ps -aef | grep <parentid> as many times until the parent-id is 1 so we can see which of the services tries to mount the partition here.

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