From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 22 07:26:02 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70E0716A41F for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 07:26:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from user@dhp.com) Received: from shell.dhp.com (shell.dhp.com [199.245.105.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35A3543D45 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 07:26:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from user@dhp.com) Received: by shell.dhp.com (Postfix, from userid 896) id 44EBC31345; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 02:26:01 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 02:26:01 -0500 (EST) From: user To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: running multiple snapshots - multiple .snap dirs needed to avoid blocking ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 07:26:02 -0000 Hello, I understand that while a snapshot is being created, any stat of the directory that it is being created in will block until the snapshot is finished being created. Let's say I have one snapshot created and in use in .snap, and then I create a second snapshot of that same filesystem, also in .snap ... should I be worried that the usage of the first snapshot will block while the second one is being created ? It seems like I should be worried about that, and I am considering .snap, .snap2, .snap3 directories and just putting one snapshot in each ... (assume 6.0-RELEASE) thanks.