Re: The Infamous Reiser4-randomly-blocks-for-ages-and-writes-the-hd-continously-in-the-mean-while now with a btrace log! (hope it helps)

[David Masover]

Vesa Kaihlavirta wrote:

Incidentally, I've witnessed similar behaviour in various simple tasks,
e.g. writing
entries to an sqlite database, or receiving mail from pop3 in thunderbird.

Sounds like fsync issues.  That is being worked on.