long hangs when deleting large directories (3.0-rc3)

[Markus Trippelsdorf]

On 2011.06.20 at 13:45 +0200, Michael Monnerie wrote:
> On Montag, 20. Juni 2011 Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> > Here are two more examples. The time when the hang occurs is marked
> 
> Could it be that some sectors on the disk are not easy to read for the 
> drive, and that it simply retries several times until it works again? 
> SATA disks can show that behaviour. You could try with "dd" with 
> seek/skip parameters so you read 1gb at once, then skip 1gb and read 1gb 
> again etc, and compare the throughput over all 1gb areas. If there's one 
> slower, that might be the problem.
> 
> Maybe a check with "smartctl" could help, too.

Thanks for the hint, Michael. I've just checked the SMART status on
both disks and the 4kb drive looks indeed suspicious:

197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       8
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0010   100   100   000    Old_age   Offline      -       8

The 512 byte drive appears to be fine. But I'm running the long
SMART self test on both of them right now and will report back
the result in a few hours.

-- 
Markus