On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 12:28:26PM +0100, Szőts Ákos wrote:
> Dear list members,
> 
> I'm not sure if this a bug or an intended behaviour, since I've yet to find a 
> reliable source with Google search.
> 
> My problem is the following: with the 3.12 kernel on every single boot (even 
> when the computer was shut down clear) the process [btrfs-ino-cache] is 
> preventing the successful startup of X because it's running for 6 minutes.
> 
> I can see this in "iotop" and while that program runs the whole system is 
> being blocked. After 6 minutes I restart X and everyting goes normal from 
> that 
> point on.

6min is way too much, something may go wrongly,
could you please run "echo w > /proc/sysrq-trigger" when that happens?

-liubo

> 
> My question is: is that necessary to regenerate the inode cache on every boot 
> or is this a bug? Of course if I remove the "inode_cache" option from fstab, 
> this phenomenon disappears.
> 
> Versions:
> - OS: openSUSE 13.1
> - Kernel: 3.12.0-6.ge7c00d8-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Nov 12 13:09:24 UTC 
> 2013 (e7c00d8)
> - Mount options: compress=lzo,space_cache,inode_cache,noatime
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Ákos
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