Hello Dave, On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 01:19:04PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: > On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 06:55:32PM +0200, Petre Rodan wrote: > > > > Hello, [..] > > upon closer inspection it turns out that after the first Write > > action to that partition, an xfssyncd process continues to write > > to that partition each 36 seconds and it doesn't stop doing that, > > even if there are no more Writes from the exterior. this keeps the > > drive busy with varying consequences. more about that later. > > Should be fixed in 2.6.37 by the commit: > > 1a387d3 xfs: dummy transactions should not dirty VFS state nice that someone else was also keen on having this bug fixed, but this particular fix is already present in 2.6.36 [1], [2] unfortunately something is still written to the log every 36s, as per the first mail in this thread. I guess we're getting closer. [1] http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.36 [2] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.36.y.git;a=commit;h=871eae4891a844e1fd065467b940f98dbf7aad1c cheers, peter
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