From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.176.25]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id o9JN769j253943 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 18:07:07 -0500 Received: from mail.internode.on.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 3D48F1051F0 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:08:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.internode.on.net (bld-mail19.adl2.internode.on.net [150.101.137.104]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id KWpyt4viyTiJnDbC for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:08:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 10:08:11 +1100 From: Dave Chinner Subject: Re: Question/Problem: Mounting of XFS filesystem takes a lot of time Message-ID: <20101019230811.GB12506@dastard> References: <1287521058.2000.21.camel@x200> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1287521058.2000.21.camel@x200> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Andreas Hasenkopf Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com 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 ; umount ; time mount 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. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs