Description of problem: umount on ext4 has seriously regressed, stalling for over a minute (or more): https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15906 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.6.33 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install a Fedora 13, accepted defaults. 2. Run the following as root: cd /tmp dd if=/dev/zero of=test.ext4 bs=1 count=1 seek=1G mkfs.ext4 -F test.ext4 mkdir -p /mnt/test mount -o loop test.ext4 /mnt/test echo $(seq 65536) | (cd /mnt/test; xargs touch) time umount /mnt/test Actual results: over a minute to perform umount. Expected results: a few seconds.
Looks barrier related, if you change the mount -o loop to mount -o loop,nobarrier, it's speedy. commit 68db1961bbf4e16c220ccec4a780e966bc1fece3 Author: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth> Date: Tue Mar 24 12:29:54 2009 +0100 loop: support barrier writes Honour barrier requests in the loop back block device driver. In case of barrier bios, flush the backing file once before processing the barrier and once after to guarantee ordering. In case of filesystems that does not support fsync, barrier bios would be failed with -EOPNOTSUPP. Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe> So you're fsyncing the loop file 2x for each barrier, and those fsyncs in turn cause cache flushes on your underlying device; once upon a time lvm didn't do anything there, but now it does ... I think you're just getting bitten by the new and improved barrier support at every level. -Eric
Since this really seems to be an upstream-relevant bug motivated by an ubuntu bug that ubuntu seemed unable to solve, I'm going to close this as UPSTREAM and worry about it there, rather than working the ubuntu bug through the fedora bugzilla.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/543617/comments/21
The mad skillz that did the new colour schemes for a new release of an os (Ubuntu 10.04) should be just as capable at being able to overcome the limitation of journal transaction and barrier blocks between every single inode update by breakfast.
kernel-2.6.33.4-95.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/kernel-2.6.33.4-95.fc13
kernel-2.6.33.4-95.fc13 has been pushed to the Fedora 13 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.