From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 19 02:11:34 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FC7316A4BF for ; Tue, 19 Aug 2003 02:11:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from frost.ath.cx (BSN-95-242-77.dsl.siol.net [193.95.242.77]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AE2143FCB for ; Tue, 19 Aug 2003 02:11:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bfg@noviforum.si) Received: from MORDOR (mordor.lucky.si [192.168.200.250]) by frost.ath.cx (ESMTP) with SMTP id EA03111 for ; Tue, 19 Aug 2003 11:11:51 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <00d901c36631$e1554b80$fac8a8c0@MORDOR> From: "Branko F. Gracnar" To: References: <003e01c365c8$b9a1a930$fac8a8c0@MORDOR> <20030818224738.GA74620@rot13.obsecurity.org> Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 11:11:30 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Subject: Re: mksnap_ffs, snapshot issues, again X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 09:11:34 -0000 >The behaviour of filesystem activity stalling during snapshot creation >is intentional, but 30 minutes to snapshot an empty FS is not. Is >there disk activity during this time? It's not clear from your mail >whether bg fsck is in operation during this time. If so, that's >probably the cause, since bg fsck itself uses a snapshot to check the >FS consistency. Background fsck was NOT running. I formatted fs and then tried to make = snapshot. Machine just hangs. Brane