Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 00:05:26 +0100 From: Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@withagen.nl> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: running mksnap_ffs Message-ID: <459AE536.5040007@withagen.nl> In-Reply-To: <20070102222003.GB90174@in-addr.com> References: <459ABB40.7050603@digiware.nl> <20070102222003.GB90174@in-addr.com>
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Gary Palmer wrote: > On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 09:06:24PM +0100, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I got the following Filesystem: >> Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused >> /dev/da0a 1.3T 422G 823G 34% 565952 182833470 0% >> >> Running of a 3ware 9550, on a dual core Opteron 242 with 1Gb. >> The system is used as SMB/NFS server for my other systems here. >> >> I would like to make weekly snapshots, but manually running mksnap_ffs >> freezes access to the disk (I sort of expected that) but the process >> never terminates. So I let is sit overnight, but looking a gstat did not >> reveil any activity what so ever... >> The disk was not released, mksnap_ffs could not be terminated. >> And things resulted in me rebooting the system. >> >> So: >> - How long should I expect making a snapshot to take: >> 5, 15, 30min, 1, 2 hour or even more??? >> - How do I diagnose the reason why it is not terminating? > > You forgot to mention what revision of FreeBSD you are running, and > if you are using quotas or anything else on the filesystem that > could impact this. Yes, I pressed send somewhat to fast: [~] wjw@bigsurf> uname -a FreeBSD bigsurf.digiware.nl 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #3: Wed Sep 27 15:57:20 CEST 2006 wjw@bigsurf.digiware.nl:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BIGSURF amd64 --WjW
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