On 14/12/18 07:03, Sinisa wrote: >> And another MD flush thread waiting on a MD sync barrier. >> >> Basically, this looks and smells like a MD sync barrier race >> condition, not an XFs problem. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Dave. > > But why don't we see the same issue with other filesystems? Possibly because, iirc, xfs is aware of the underlying raid? I don't know, but I seem to remember that from earlier discussions about "xfs over mdraid". Cheers, Wol