Re: 2.5.66: slow to friggin slow journal recover

[CaT <cat@zip.com.au>]

On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 02:28:44AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> CaT <cat@zip.com.au> wrote:
> > The journal recovery rangers from slow to really friggin slow under
> > 2.5.66 with definate pauses in disk io stretching for 10s of seconds.
> > This does not happen with 2.5.63 and if I hit ^c on fsck and let the
> > kernel handle the journal recover for all partitions  on mountime
> > the recovery under 2.5.66 is either so fast that you don't notice
> > it or just a buttload faster. Very objective measurements of time but
> > the slowness of a journal recover as done by fsck is so noticible it's
> > not funny.
> 
> e2fsck 1.32 seems to work fine here.
> 
> Try arranging for a partition to _not_ be mounted at boot (disable it in
> /etc/fstab).  Then do a `reboot -f' and when you get a login prompt, run
> e2fsck against that partition.
> 
> If the journal recovery is still slow then try capturing the state when it is
> stuck with sysrq-T.

Any other thing I can do? Every time I try alt-sysrq-t the fscking fsck
terminates and I don't get a list of tasks whilst it is running but only
straight after (which I'm assuming is less then useful). Most annoying.

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