On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:44:18PM +0200, Andreas Hasenkopf wrote: > Hello, > since today I have quite a big problem and I'd like to get some opinions > from experts on how to proceed in solving the problem. > > The Problem: > Since today mounting and unmounting of any XFS partition on my system > takes (depending on size of partition) up to 15 minutes and more. How big is the journal? (xfs_info output will tell us). > The system in its current configuration was working fine for over 6 > months and I did not change anything recently with respect of upgrades. > > I have already tried booting a Linux-LiveCD and mounting the XFS > partitions in that system: same result. > Also I have run xfs_check and xfs_repair -n on the partitions on the > RAID1 configuration: mounting still takes a lot of time (15 mins +). Was it a clean unmount, or is it doing journal replay? If you do: # mount <dev> <mtpt> ; umount <mtpt> ; time mount <dev> <mtpt> Does the second mount take 15 minutes? > And now to my question: > Could my problem be a software related problem (Linux, XFS, something > else) or should I consider hardware problems? Sounds suspiciously like failing hardware to me. Any errors in dmesg? Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
