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Date:      Tue, 21 Mar 2006 14:49:04 -0500
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        John Kozubik <john@kozubik.com>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, jroberson@chesapeake.net, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, tegge@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: UFS2 Snapshots in 6.1-Beta4 - Confirmed Problems
Message-ID:  <20060321194904.GA20959@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060321113923.I55763@kozubik.com>
References:  <20060320224313.O55763@kozubik.com> <20060321184127.GA19204@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060321113923.I55763@kozubik.com>

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On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 11:40:44AM -0800, John Kozubik wrote:
>=20
>=20
> On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>=20
> > > 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.
>=20
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> Is that true ?  Can I skip a few hours of trying to reproduce this ?

Yes, I'm easily able to reproduce it, and I'm told that fixing it will
require fairly extensive work & testing.

Kris

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