Re: [Bug #13374] reiserfs blocked for more than 120secs

Harald Dunkel
2009-08-18T17:30:23Z

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Hi Rafael,

I haven't seen the 120secs timeout yet, but using 2.6.31-rc5 there _are_
some delays that I am not sure of. Sometimes it takes about 30 secs till
the XWindow server comes up, for example. (I use xinit on the command line
at login. / and /home are both reiserfs.) For 2.6.30.4 and older I haven't
seen this delay yet, AFAIR.

Most recent event: I tried to format a 4 GByte USB stick with reiserfs.
Here is the screen output:

# device=/dev/sdf
# parted $device mklabel gpt
Warning: The existing disk label on /dev/sdf will be destroyed and
all data on this disk will be lost. Do you want to continue?
Yes/No? Yes
Information: You may need to update /etc/fstab.

# parted -- $device mkpart primary 0s -1s
Warning: You requested a partition from 0.00B to 4127MB.
The closest location we can manage is 17.4kB to 4127MB.
Is this still acceptable to you?
Yes/No? Yes
Information: You may need to update /etc/fstab.

# mkreiserfs -l usbstick /dev/sdf1
mkreiserfs 3.6.21 (2009 www.namesys.com)
:
:
UUID: 154d66cc-02ac-4979-9a39-163e3cf80623
LABEL: usbstick
ATTENTION: YOU SHOULD REBOOT AFTER FDISK!
ALL DATA WILL BE LOST ON '/dev/sdf1'!
Continue (y/n):y
Initializing journal - 0%....20%....40%....60%....80%....100%
Syncing..ok
ReiserFS is successfully created on /dev/sdf1.

It took about 2 to 3 minutes till the "ok" in the "Syncing" line
was shown. /var/log/messages was silent. When I tried to reproduce
the delay it was gone, of course.

Since I would like to try 2.6.31-rc6 anyway, maybe you could post
some hints about what debugging options to set in the config file?

Many thanx

Harri

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