From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda1.sgi.com [192.48.157.11]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id oBR6DC24003062 for ; Mon, 27 Dec 2010 00:13:13 -0600 Received: from dal02.mx.dnspark.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 802D41531449 for ; Sun, 26 Dec 2010 22:15:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from dal02.mx.dnspark.net (dal02.mx.dnspark.net [67.228.184.121]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id ifrmZkQILC0I1ZtN for ; Sun, 26 Dec 2010 22:15:12 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 08:16:29 +0200 From: Petre Rodan Subject: Re: xfssyncd and disk spin down Message-ID: <20101227061629.GA2275@pandora.simplex.ro> References: <20101223165532.GA23813@peter.simplex.ro> <20101227021904.GA24828@dastard> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20101227021904.GA24828@dastard> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============4660457280212616640==" Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Dave Chinner Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com --===============4660457280212616640== Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu" Content-Disposition: inline --WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello Dave, On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 01:19:04PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: > On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 06:55:32PM +0200, Petre Rodan wrote: > >=20 > > Hello, [..] > > 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. >=20 > Should be fixed in 2.6.37 by the commit: >=20 > 1a387d3 xfs: dummy transactions should not dirty VFS state nice that someone else was also keen on having this bug fixed, but this par= ticular fix is already present in 2.6.36 [1], [2] unfortunately something is still written to the log every 36s, as per the f= irst mail in this thread. I guess we're getting closer. [1] http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.36 [2] http://git.kernel.org/?p=3Dlinux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.36.y.git;a= =3Dcommit;h=3D871eae4891a844e1fd065467b940f98dbf7aad1c cheers, peter --WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk0YLz0ACgkQixMPpwVd7zGMqACfeWaW8a37KFpgq9boy2Uhlexp SZUAn2s+c38widpGyLgYqMTq7OxP3ac2 =U46I -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu-- --===============4660457280212616640== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs --===============4660457280212616640==--