From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Petre Rodan <petre.rodan@simplex.ro>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: xfssyncd and disk spin down
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 13:19:04 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101227021904.GA24828@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101223165532.GA23813@peter.simplex.ro>
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 06:55:32PM +0200, Petre Rodan wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have a problem with a hard drive that never managed to spin
> down. this drive is a storage space, not a system disk, the only
> thing that generated writes is the nfs server that exports its
> contents. it has only one large xfs partition on it.
>
> upon closer inspection it turns out that after the first Write
> action to that partition, an xfssyncd process continues to write
> to that partition each 36 seconds and it doesn't stop doing that,
> even if there are no more Writes from the exterior. this keeps the
> drive busy with varying consequences. more about that later.
Should be fixed in 2.6.37 by the commit:
1a387d3 xfs: dummy transactions should not dirty VFS state
Cheers,
Dave.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-27 2:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-23 16:55 xfssyncd and disk spin down Petre Rodan
2010-12-23 19:29 ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-12-23 21:16 ` Petre Rodan
2010-12-24 0:54 ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-12-24 5:15 ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-12-24 6:02 ` Petre Rodan
2010-12-24 23:00 ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-12-25 3:36 ` Eric Sandeen
2010-12-25 4:32 ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-12-24 18:17 ` Eric Sandeen
2010-12-25 12:09 ` Petre Rodan
2010-12-27 2:19 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2010-12-27 6:16 ` Petre Rodan
2010-12-27 14:07 ` Dave Chinner
2010-12-27 17:19 ` Petre Rodan
2010-12-31 0:13 ` Dave Chinner
2011-01-20 10:01 ` Petre Rodan
2011-01-20 11:06 ` Dave Chinner
2011-01-20 12:07 ` Petre Rodan
2011-01-20 13:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-01-20 23:43 ` Dave Chinner
2011-02-10 20:42 ` Petre Rodan
2011-02-10 22:18 ` Dave Chinner
2011-02-14 18:04 ` Brian Duncan
2011-05-31 14:40 ` Brian Duncan
2011-05-31 15:16 ` Michael Weissenbacher
2011-06-01 23:37 ` Dave Chinner
2011-07-11 4:02 ` Brian Duncan
2011-07-11 14:34 ` Michael Weissenbacher
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