[arch-general] makechrootpkg and long union unmount time

[Evangelos Foutras]

On 12/12/2009 01:01 πμ, Ionut Biru wrote:
> On 12/12/2009 12:55 AM, Evangelos Foutras wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> When I'm building a package using makechrootpkg and the build fails or I
>> happen to interrupt it, sometimes it gets stuck at the "cleaning up
>> unioned mounts" stage for a very long time (from several seconds up to a
>> few minutes). During this time, the disk shows intense activity.
>>
>> Does this happen to others too? Any idea why this is occurring and how
>> to prevent it?
>
> happen to me too. since 2.6.32 upgrade the cleanup sometimes take even
> 20 minutes. dmesg shows that aufs crashes

Yeah, it's gotten much worse for me too with the latest kernel, maybe 
because I'm using ext4 and some recent corrections applied to it had a 
negative effect on performance [1].

Since it's not just me, I opened a bug report [2] so we can hopefully 
resolve this annoying behavior.

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[1] http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=85731
[2] http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17469