From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 2 23:20:16 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA59416A40F for ; Tue, 2 Jan 2007 23:20:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wjw@withagen.nl) Received: from mail.digiware.nl (www.tegenbosch28.nl [217.21.251.97]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7592B13C455 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 2007 23:20:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wjw@withagen.nl) Received: from [212.61.27.67] (opteron.digiware.nl [212.61.27.67]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digiware.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECA7917125 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 00:03:25 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <459AE536.5040007@withagen.nl> Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 00:05:26 +0100 From: Willem Jan Withagen User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: stable@freebsd.org References: <459ABB40.7050603@digiware.nl> <20070102222003.GB90174@in-addr.com> In-Reply-To: <20070102222003.GB90174@in-addr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: running mksnap_ffs X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 23:20:16 -0000 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