From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 23 18:42:44 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64F2F16A422; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 18:42:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from smtp.owt.com (smtp.owt.com [204.118.6.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B840843D6A; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 18:42:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from topaz-out (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by smtp.owt.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k2NIg91Z030001; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 10:42:09 -0800 From: Kent Stewart To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 10:42:30 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <20060320224313.O55763@kozubik.com> <20060323183414.GA84775@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20060323183414.GA84775@xor.obsecurity.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200603231042.30623.kstewart@owt.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, jroberson@chesapeake.net, tegge@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: UFS2 Snapshots in 6.1-Beta4 - Confirmed Problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 18:42:44 -0000 On Thursday 23 March 2006 10:34, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 01:36:44AM -0800, John Kozubik wrote: > > First, I have confirmed that a filesystem with multiple snapshots > > that undergoes multiple, rapid deletions of files, will cause the > > system to hang. I have witnessed this before, but had not > > confirmed it or documented it in a PR. Now that I have confirmed > > this behavior, I have documented it in: kern/94769 > > I ran a (completion of) your script in a loop for about 24 hours and > it didn't deadlock. This may be because there was a second set of > fixes that was merged in to 6.x a day or two ago. Are you able to > confirm whether they indeed fixed this problem? > > > Second, kern/92292 is still a problem. I have reproduced this > > error in 6.1-BETA4 (and have seen it happening since 5.1). The > > (small) difference is that the cp process seems to stick in the > > flswai state instead of biowr. > > I'll test this one next. There is also a problem if you try to boot the latest 6.1-beta kernel from XP using an old boot1. It just hangs and you don't even see the "-" symbol on the console. You can boot from XP after you start using the new boot1. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://www.soyandina.com/ "I am Andean project". http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html