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From: Olaf Weber <olaf@sgi.com>
To: Daniele Nuzzo - Readytec SPA <d.nuzzo@readytec.it>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: umount xfs filesystem
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:52:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bzytz12kztx.fsf@fransum.emea.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A66C5E7.7050408@readytec.it> (Daniele Nuzzo's message of "Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:55:19 +0200")

Daniele Nuzzo writes:

> hi,
> I think I need your advice-opinion ...
> I set up a system like CentOS 5.3, lvm, drbd 8.2, various systems raid
> (Adaptec aacraid or LSI MegaRAID with or without write back cache)
> after some time of work (a few hours or days) do the umount is
> slow... even a few minutes ... why?
> I have already disabled barrier and write cache on drbd, but not on
> the controller or the sas  drives... ideas?
> thanks a lot.

> p.s.
> drbd partitions formatted with the default options.

On unmount the system has flush all dirty data to disk.  Depending on
the amount of data in memory, this might take a while.

I'm not claiming this is definitely the case here, but it is an
obvious candidate.

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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <4A66C5E7.7050408@readytec.it>
2009-07-24 12:52 ` Olaf Weber [this message]
2009-07-24 13:48   ` umount xfs filesystem Michael Monnerie

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