inode cache rebuild problem

2014-04-23 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Hello, I have a desktop system with 2 disks, all btrfs, single partition. All of these partitions had space_cache,inode_cache enabled. Linux 3.14 has broken resume on my desktop, hence I need to shutdown and restart the machine every time. But even on clean reboot, inode_cache was

Re: Btrfs might be gradually slowing the boot process

2013-11-08 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Friday, November 08, 2013 07:35:18 PM y...@wp.pl wrote: Hello, I recently noticed that my boot has become slower - it took around 29s, while at the beginning it was ~6s. I thought it was an issue with systemd, because it failed to properly indicate at which stage the slowdown occurred

Re: autodefrag by default, was: Lots of harddrive chatter

2013-07-21 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Sunday, July 21, 2013 04:44:09 PM George Mitchell wrote: Unless auto-defrag can work around the in-use file issue, that could be a problem since some heavily used system files are open virtually all the time the system is up and running. Has this issue been investigated and if so are

Re: autodefrag by default, was: Lots of harddrive chatter

2013-07-21 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Sunday, July 21, 2013 08:53:42 PM George Mitchell wrote: system files typically are installed once and never rewritten in place, so they should not be much fragmented to begin with. now their directory objects, is a different story and so is things like systemd journal, log files, or

Re: What is the current status of defragmentation?

2013-07-17 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Thursday, July 18, 2013 12:18:23 AM you wrote: * Is the defragmentation of the whole filesystem supported at all? I can't find a single reference that it is, and a syntax of btrfs-progs suggest that it isn't. If supported, under what conditions? Like what % of free space should be

space cache and unclean shutdown

2013-07-09 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Hello, I am repeatedly running into problems with space cache and unclean shutdown. I am hitting the bug as reported/fixed at https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57631 The solution works for me but it is a good 10-15 min ritual to clean all the partitions, discard cache, reboot,

Re: unclean shutdown and space cache rebuild

2013-07-04 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Tuesday, July 02, 2013 09:19:07 PM Shridhar Daithankar wrote: On Tuesday, July 02, 2013 01:00:29 PM Duncan wrote: But I'd still expect there to be some better performance steady state after a few mounts gets the basic filesystem defragged. Tho if the fileystem is heavily fragmented[2

Re: unclean shutdown and space cache rebuild

2013-07-02 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Tuesday, July 02, 2013 01:00:29 PM Duncan wrote: Just to be clear, your system, your call. I'd never /dream/ of interfering with that due to the implications for my own system (which is certainly highly customized even matched against a peer-group of other gentoo installs =:^). That

Re: unclean shutdown and space cache rebuild

2013-07-01 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Monday, July 01, 2013 09:10:41 AM Duncan wrote: But in general, how to find out most fragmented files and folders? mouting with autodefrag is a serious degradation.. It is? AFAIK, all the autodefrag mount option does is scan files for fragmentation as they are written and queue any

unclean shutdown and space cache rebuild

2013-06-30 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Hello, I have 3 partitions with btrfs(/, /home and /data). All of them have following mount options noatime,space_cache,inode_cache,compress=lzo,defaults Whenever there is a unclean shutdown(which happens a lot in my case), the next reboot, system comes up relatively at the same speed but as

Re: unclean shutdown and space cache rebuild

2013-06-30 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Sunday, June 30, 2013 01:53:48 PM Garry T. Williams wrote: I suspect this is, at least in part, related to severe fragmentation in /home. I don't think so. The problem I have described occur only before anybody logs in to the system and /home being a separate partition, it is not the