From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from len.romanrm.net ([91.229.20.24]:48176 "EHLO len.romanrm.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751805AbaAEXEc (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Jan 2014 18:04:32 -0500 Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 04:57:04 +0600 From: Roman Mamedov To: Brendan Hide Cc: Sulla , Chris Murphy , linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: btrfs-transaction blocked for more than 120 seconds Message-ID: <20140106045704.7f20872f@natsu> In-Reply-To: <52C9DE66.8080706@swiftspirit.co.za> References: <52C2AE7C.5020601@gmx.at> <64E70864-9830-4145-9EDF-F53A79977999@colorremedies.com> <52C9CBEF.2000309@gmx.at> <52C9DE66.8080706@swiftspirit.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/IERUNuczDZQxeBcVLvwYxyS"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --Sig_/IERUNuczDZQxeBcVLvwYxyS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 06 Jan 2014 00:36:22 +0200 Brendan Hide wrote: > I had 8x 1.5TB WD1500EARS drives in an mdRAID5 array. With it I had a=20 > single 250GB IDE disk for the OS. When the very old IDE disk inevitably=20 > died, I decided to use a spare 1.5TB drive for the OS. Performance was=20 > bad enough that I simply bought my first SSD the same week. Did you align your partitions to accommodate for the 4K sector of the EARS? --=20 With respect, Roman --Sig_/IERUNuczDZQxeBcVLvwYxyS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlLJ40AACgkQTLKSvz+PZwgG8wCfXbSgeGKY5rrzBJYm787UPYKx kIIAnAxtHd34593p/VRstEJ/9NHHtg6X =yrg6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/IERUNuczDZQxeBcVLvwYxyS--