From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Mar 30 20:50:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EFF437B417 for ; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 20:50:37 -0800 (PST) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1192) id 4A33CAE03F; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 20:50:37 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 20:50:37 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: Kirk McKusick , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UFS snapshots in current Message-ID: <20020331045037.GE93885@elvis.mu.org> References: <200203282250.g2SMoDD99826@beastie.mckusick.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Garance A Drosihn [020330 20:01] wrote: > At 2:50 PM -0800 3/28/02, Kirk McKusick wrote: > > From: Garance A Drosihn > > > > 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