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  • Sounds pretty XY to me. What are you actually trying to achieve?
    – Daniel B
    Commented Jul 18, 2014 at 8:18
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    It took my Raspberry Pi multiple hours to finish ext4lazyinit on an external hard drive. I wanted to test if the hd spins down correctly after some time of inactivity however that wasn't possible due to ext4lazyinit. After looking at some kernel code (github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/fs/ext4/super.c#L2931) it seems not possible to force the thread to finish since the delays are somewhat hardcoded. That is however no definitive answer, I am no kernel nor ext4 expert and I just took a glimpse at that function.
    – Marius
    Commented Jul 18, 2014 at 9:29
  • @Marius You are correct that the delay is hard-coded.
    – Moshe Katz
    Commented Sep 14, 2016 at 18:49