Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 16:03:22 +0100 (CET) From: Yamagi Burmeister <lists@yamagi.org> To: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, mckusick@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Snapshots are never freed on at least 8.1 and 8.2 Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1103161559260.3138@saya.home.yamagi.org> In-Reply-To: <20110316110924.GN78089@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1103160925050.4245@saya.home.yamagi.org> <20110316110924.GN78089@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
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On Wed, 16 Mar 2011, Kostik Belousov wrote: > On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 09:27:04AM +0100, Yamagi Burmeister wrote: >> Hello, >> I'm not sure if this is a bug or the expected behavior but it seems quit >> strange. On at least FreeBSD 8.1 and 8.2 UFS2 snapshots are never freed >> while the filesystem is mounted. Therefor you have to remount every 20 >> snapshots which is quiet a pain when using "dump -L" or similar things >> via cron. > ... > > Yes, very interesting. It seems that ffs_snapgone() is never called. > How did our build system mutated over the time so that FFS is no longer > defined, I do not know and do not much want to track. The patch is working as espected. I've done a quick test with GENERIC and one with a seperatly build module. Thanks. :) -- Homepage: www.yamagi.org Jabber: yamagi@yamagi.org GnuPG/GPG: 0xEFBCCBCB
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