So it doesn't seem impossible for this operation to last for more than two minutes.
The facts that SyncDataDirectory() is executed between these two messages logged, 008_fsm_truncation is the only test which turns fsync on, and we see no such failures in newer branches (because of a7f417107), make me suspect that dodo is slow on fsync.
Not sure if it helps but I can confirm that dodo is used for multiple tasks and that
it is using a (slow) external USB3 disk. Also, while using dodo last week (for
something unrelated), I noticed iotop at ~30MB/s usage & 1-min CPU around ~7.
Right now (while dodo's idle), via dd I see ~30MB/s is pretty much the max:
pi@pi4:/media/pi/250gb $ dd if=/dev/zero of=./test count=1024 oflag=direct bs=128k 1024+0 records in 1024+0 records out 134217728 bytes (134 MB, 128 MiB) copied, 4.51225 s, 29.7 MB/s
pi@pi4:/media/pi/250gb $ dd if=/dev/zero of=./test count=1024 oflag=dsync bs=128k 1024+0 records in 1024+0 records out 134217728 bytes (134 MB, 128 MiB) copied, 24.4916 s, 5.5 MB/s
