If you have a disk that contains large number of image and video files, you may not want to attach it to pogoplug, at least yet. It seems that pogoplug wants to generate thumbnails for all video and image files on the disk (/tmp/hbplug.log shows invocation of ffmpeg), and since I attached the disk that contains all digital pictures I've ever took in the past 10 years or so - especially with two kids, I easily take thousands of pictures a year - it looks like the pogoplug is taking forever to process them all.
Looking at .cedata/tn directory pogoplug created (which seems to be the directory for thumbnails), I see 3k immediate subdirectories under .cedata/tn, and total 23k files and directories recursively. *arg*. Life is never simple :(
I don't remember whether I formatted this disk in NTFS or FAT, but regardless, it seems like a bad design on pogoplug's part to use this many directories - you want to keep the number of directories reasonable, especially when the underlying filesystem is badly designed, like FAT.
Anyway, I've stopped "hbplug" process by "kill -STOP", so the disk is not thrashing. I should remember to re-enable hbplug process again.
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