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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.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

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  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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