Interesting that it only happens at enospc time though - the fs would
be sending barriers in general usage.
Although, as ext4 fills, it does do more syncing/flushing to try to
eke out that last bit of space.... hmm....
Andre, just for fun, you might try mounting -o nodelalloc, fill it again,
and see if you see the same behavior.
If not, you might do it again w/ defaults, and capture blktrace data, which
I think will trace barrier requests as well.
(or, maybe also try testing with -o nobarrier)
I still don't think it's likely a filesystem problem but maybe you can
pinpoint the fs behavior that triggers it.
-Eric
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