Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 20:50:37 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@beastie.mckusick.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UFS snapshots in current Message-ID: <20020331045037.GE93885@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <p05101534b8cc3050bcdc@[128.113.24.47]> References: <200203282250.g2SMoDD99826@beastie.mckusick.com> <p05101534b8cc3050bcdc@[128.113.24.47]>
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* Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> [020330 20:01] wrote: > At 2:50 PM -0800 3/28/02, Kirk McKusick wrote: > > From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> > > > > More useful question: what should I look at for > > info on using snapshots? > > > >General references are found at: > > > > http://www.mckusick.com/softdep/index.html > > > >The soft updates paper has a section on snapshots. The > >background fsck paper goes into snapshots (and their > >general usage) in a bit more detail, so is likely to > >be more useful. > > Okay, well, I was trying this out and I had something > odd happen. As I sit here waiting for my PC to return > to life, I'll ask if what I was trying to do something > which would be a BadIdea(tm). [snip] Looks like you hit one of the snapshot deadlock conditions, Dr McKusick recently introduced a fix for one of the deadlocks so this may not happen again... -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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