Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:41:08 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> To: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org>, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gjournal 6.X and fs snapshots Message-ID: <47665244.1070108@icyb.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <4766507C.6090404@icyb.net.ua> References: <4766507C.6090404@icyb.net.ua>
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on 17/12/2007 12:33 Andriy Gapon said the following: > Pawel, > > it seems that 6.X gjournal (with .deleted/ directory) keeps files for fs > snapshots "forever". I use "dump -L" to create backups of live > filesystems and noticed that after some days dump fails with: > mksnap_ffs: Cannot create /var/.snap/dump_snapshot: No space left on device > > I looked into .deleted and see 20 files owned by operator with the same > "huge" size (circa size of the whole fs). So my conclusion was that > those are the snapshot files, so I have 20 active snapshots and so I > have exhausted their limit. And yes, using mdconfig and mount I could mount one of the files and it was an image of the fs. > Does this look as a correct understanding ? Is there a way to cleanup > those without a reboot ? Can I simply rm them (without any bad > consequences) ? Well, I removed one and everything seems to have gone ok. So, I guess I could declare this issue a "minor annoyance" and live with it until upgrade to 7. I hope that in 7 gjournal doesn't keep the snapshots around after they are deleted. -- Andriy Gapon
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