Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:46:45 +0100 From: Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Eirik_=D8verby?= <ltning@anduin.net> Cc: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: UFS snapshot weirdness Message-ID: <47C03FE5.8030703@madpilot.net> In-Reply-To: <78796912-6D98-4433-A5C9-622854C7DFB2@anduin.net> References: <79029E40-6E43-4482-8E39-D1DE49C8C53A@anduin.net> <200802122311.43247.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <5B010AC7-C292-45E6-A109-20E39B370604@anduin.net> <200802131851.15014.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <78796912-6D98-4433-A5C9-622854C7DFB2@anduin.net>
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Eirik Øverby wrote: > > I read somewhere else about NFS issues on 7-RC* where snapshots have > been used. In particular - and this is something I'm seeing too - > changing the exports file or reloading mountd gives the following in > messages log: > > Feb 19 18:58:09 anduin mountd[38867]: can't delete exports for /tmp: > Invalid argument > Feb 19 18:58:09 anduin mountd[38867]: can't delete exports for /usr: > Cross-device link > Feb 19 18:58:09 anduin mountd[38867]: can't delete exports for /var: > Cross-device link > Feb 19 18:58:09 anduin mountd[38867]: can't delete exports for > /export/home: Cross-device link > Feb 19 18:58:09 anduin mountd[38867]: can't delete exports for /opt: > Cross-device link > > Can this be related? I'm starting to worry here - what will be the > long-term consequences if snapshots are stuck around in this "invisible" > state? > I have been experiencing these too. But it looks more like a bug in mountd, since it shows up only is snapshots are created with mount. If snapshots are created with mksnap_ffs this does not seem to show up. I still have to make more in depth experiments, but before experimenting by myself I'd like to have some more informed directions on what to experiment. -- Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net>
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