From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Andreas Hasenkopf <andreas.hasenkopf@physik.uni-regensburg.de>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Question/Problem: Mounting of XFS filesystem takes a lot of time
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 10:08:11 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101019230811.GB12506@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1287521058.2000.21.camel@x200>
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:44:18PM +0200, Andreas Hasenkopf wrote:
> Hello,
> since today I have quite a big problem and I'd like to get some opinions
> from experts on how to proceed in solving the problem.
>
> The Problem:
> Since today mounting and unmounting of any XFS partition on my system
> takes (depending on size of partition) up to 15 minutes and more.
How big is the journal? (xfs_info output will tell us).
> The system in its current configuration was working fine for over 6
> months and I did not change anything recently with respect of upgrades.
>
> I have already tried booting a Linux-LiveCD and mounting the XFS
> partitions in that system: same result.
> Also I have run xfs_check and xfs_repair -n on the partitions on the
> RAID1 configuration: mounting still takes a lot of time (15 mins +).
Was it a clean unmount, or is it doing journal replay?
If you do:
# mount <dev> <mtpt> ; umount <mtpt> ; time mount <dev> <mtpt>
Does the second mount take 15 minutes?
> And now to my question:
> Could my problem be a software related problem (Linux, XFS, something
> else) or should I consider hardware problems?
Sounds suspiciously like failing hardware to me. Any errors in
dmesg?
Cheers,
Dave.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-19 23:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-19 20:44 Question/Problem: Mounting of XFS filesystem takes a lot of time Andreas Hasenkopf
2010-10-19 21:33 ` Martin Steigerwald
2010-10-19 23:08 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2010-10-20 6:05 ` Michael Monnerie
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2010-10-20 16:57 Andreas Hasenkopf
2010-10-21 0:19 ` Peter Grandi
2010-10-21 17:05 ` Emmanuel Florac
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