Brian wrote: > > Can anyone please comment if this bug was ever fixed? > > I have searched and see no further talk about this. > > echo 720000 > /proc/sys/fs/xfs/xfssyncd_centisecs allows a drive to sleep more > often, but still is impacted by this. > > Thanks! > AFAICT nothing has changed in this regard. I sill see the same behavior with kernel 2.6.39. Thanks to this thread i found out about the problems related to accumulating head unloads which i was able to mitigate by setting xfssyncd_centisecs to a higher value. cheers, Michael _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs