[Ocfs2-users] How long for an fsck?

[Sunil Mushran]

On 04/22/2011 02:33 PM, Sunil Mushran wrote:
> On 04/21/2011 10:46 AM, Josep Guerrero wrote:
>> Hello again,
>>
>> It just finished. The output file is almost 9 MB long, but compressed is less
>> than 1 MB. I attach it to the message.
>>
>>> Do:
>>> # debugfs.ocfs2 -R "stat //global_bitmap" /dev/hidrahome/lvol0
>>>
>>> Does this hang too? Redirect the output to a file. That will give us some
>>> clues.
> How long did the debugfs output take?
> Did fsck eventually finish?
> If so, how long did that take?
> Approximately.
>
> I have a theory as to why it is slow. But I would like some confirmation.

BTW, you said one of the cores was at 100%. What does top show?
Is fsck the main contributor or is some other process spinning?

My theory had fsck have high wait%. I seem to be missing something.