From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 23 20:35:30 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A387216ACC4 for ; Tue, 23 May 2006 20:35:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82BDF43D66 for ; Tue, 23 May 2006 20:35:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D95A1A3C1D; Tue, 23 May 2006 13:35:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BCA0451742; Tue, 23 May 2006 16:35:21 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 16:35:21 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: Mark Kane Message-ID: <20060523203521.GA48061@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20060523181638.GC767@dimma.mow.oilspace.com> <6eb82e0605231120q37224c6r3b25982f556bed72@mail.gmail.com> <447366AD.30203@rogers.com> <44736E11.6060104@mkproductions.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="tThc/1wpZn/ma/RB" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44736E11.6060104@mkproductions.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: Mike Jakubik , stable@freebsd.org, Rong-en Fan Subject: Re: quota and snapshots in 6.1-RELEASE 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, 23 May 2006 20:35:38 -0000 --tThc/1wpZn/ma/RB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 03:18:25PM -0500, Mark Kane wrote: > Mike Jakubik wrote: > >Rong-en Fan wrote: > >>On 5/23/06, Dmitriy Kirhlarov wrote: > >>>Hi, list. > >>> > >>>Some time ago quota and, AFAIR, snapshots in 6.1-RELEASE has deadlock > >>>problems. What the current situation with this? I'm ready to test > >>>patches, if needed. > >>> > >>>WBR > >> > >>IIRC, there are some quota and snapshots changes merged in > >>6.1-STABLE after 6.1-RELEASE is releases. So I think you may want > >>to try that. > > > >Thats correct. I have been meaning to test these, but not had the time= =20 > >to do so yet. If you can, update to -STABLE and give it a test. >=20 > I had a motherboard die in a server on Sunday. It is running FreeBSD=20 > 5.4-RELEASE and the only hardware they had to replace it with was an=20 > Athlon64 CPU and a motherboard with an ATI chipset. With that board and= =20 > 5.4, it will only boot in Safe Mode, but then the hard drives are=20 > running at very slow speeds. It completely locked up earlier today and=20 > they had to do a hard reboot (with no errors on the screen or in=20 > /var/log/messages). My plan was to have them fully upgrade the server=20 > tonight to a new box (with the same Athlon64 and mobo with ATI chipset=20 > since that's all they have), and do a fresh install of 6.1-RELEASE=20 > because a very similar board with the same chipset was reported to work= =20 > in 6.0. >=20 > Every machine I have or work on runs FreeBSD, but this is the only one=20 > that needs quotas because it runs cPanel for customers. I am not sure=20 > all the details about the problems with quotas, so will running=20 > 6.1-RELEASE with quotas cause problems for sure? If so, any suggestions= =20 > on what to do given my situation? Would 6.0 be any better? I'd like to=20 > have the latest version because doing updates properly remotely is=20 > difficult, but if it is not going to work then I may have to use 6.0 if= =20 > that will work or figure something else out hardware wise. If you use snapshots with your quotas, update to 6.1-STABLE. If you don't use snapshots, 6.1-R should be fine. This was discussed in excruciating depth a few weeks back, so please read the archives for more. Kris --tThc/1wpZn/ma/RB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEc3IJWry0BWjoQKURAriOAJ93Ir9r4Aj1Psqs+Nu9knYwzEBXTQCg9Mo9 rApEGpgHoAI9PBxCsri/0Ng= =6prq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --tThc/1wpZn/ma/RB--