From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751409AbZHRTM0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:12:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750823AbZHRTMZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:12:25 -0400 Received: from ogre.sisk.pl ([217.79.144.158]:55592 "EHLO ogre.sisk.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750736AbZHRTMY (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:12:24 -0400 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: Harald Dunkel Subject: Re: [Bug #13374] reiserfs blocked for more than 120secs Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:12:53 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.0 (Linux/2.6.31-rc6-rjw; KDE/4.3.0; x86_64; ; ) Cc: =?iso-8859-2?q?Fr=E9d=E9ric_Weisbecker?= , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Kernel Testers List , Jeff Mahoney , Tejun Heo References: <200908122315.09420.rjw@sisk.pl> <4A8AE52F.6030606@t-online.de> In-Reply-To: <4A8AE52F.6030606@t-online.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200908182112.53486.rjw@sisk.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 18 August 2009, Harald Dunkel wrote: > Hi Rafael, > > I haven't seen the 120secs timeout yet, but using 2.6.31-rc5 there _are_ > some delays that I am not sure of. Sometimes it takes about 30 secs till > the XWindow server comes up, for example. (I use xinit on the command line > at login. / and /home are both reiserfs.) For 2.6.30.4 and older I haven't > seen this delay yet, AFAIR. > > Most recent event: I tried to format a 4 GByte USB stick with reiserfs. > Here is the screen output: > > # device=/dev/sdf > # parted $device mklabel gpt > Warning: The existing disk label on /dev/sdf will be destroyed and > all data on this disk will be lost. Do you want to continue? > Yes/No? Yes > Information: You may need to update /etc/fstab. > > # parted -- $device mkpart primary 0s -1s > Warning: You requested a partition from 0.00B to 4127MB. > The closest location we can manage is 17.4kB to 4127MB. > Is this still acceptable to you? > Yes/No? Yes > Information: You may need to update /etc/fstab. > > # mkreiserfs -l usbstick /dev/sdf1 > mkreiserfs 3.6.21 (2009 www.namesys.com) > : > : > UUID: 154d66cc-02ac-4979-9a39-163e3cf80623 > LABEL: usbstick > ATTENTION: YOU SHOULD REBOOT AFTER FDISK! > ALL DATA WILL BE LOST ON '/dev/sdf1'! > Continue (y/n):y > Initializing journal - 0%....20%....40%....60%....80%....100% > Syncing..ok > ReiserFS is successfully created on /dev/sdf1. > > It took about 2 to 3 minutes till the "ok" in the "Syncing" line > was shown. /var/log/messages was silent. When I tried to reproduce > the delay it was gone, of course. Thanks for the update. > Since I would like to try 2.6.31-rc6 anyway, maybe you could post > some hints about what debugging options to set in the config file? Unfortunately, I don't have much experience with debugging issues of this kind. Perhaps Tejun will have some hints (CC added)? Best, Rafael