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Date:      Tue, 21 Mar 2006 11:40:44 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Kozubik <john@kozubik.com>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, jroberson@chesapeake.net, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, tegge@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: UFS2 Snapshots in 6.1-Beta4 - Confirmed Problems
Message-ID:  <20060321113923.I55763@kozubik.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060321184127.GA19204@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <20060320224313.O55763@kozubik.com> <20060321184127.GA19204@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> > This next one is complicated, and I haven't submitted a PR for it yet, but
> > I believe it is quite serious for reasons I will expand on below.
> >
> > The problem is:  If you completely fill a filesystem (109% usage in `df`
> > on most systems) that has a snapshot on it, the system becomes very
> > unresponsive - all interactive and disk response lags terribly and,
> > although the system is not hung, it is in many cases unusable.
>
> Yes :-( This will probably not be fixable in time for 6.1, but
> hopefully it will be addressed in the future.  FYI, the system may
> also panic in this situation.


Because my original description of this behavior was so vague, I was going
to try to reproduce it again with more details, however it sounds like you
have already witnessed this and know more about it than I do.

Is that true ?  Can I skip a few hours of trying to reproduce this ?

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