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Date:      Thu, 23 Mar 2006 16:04:27 -0500
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Eugene <genie@geniechka.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: UFS2 Snapshots in 6.1-Beta4 - Confirmed Problems
Message-ID:  <20060323210426.GA87297@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <007801c64eb9$3db4c050$1b12c055@genie>
References:  <20060322120033.E5B8916A44B@hub.freebsd.org> <007801c64eb9$3db4c050$1b12c055@genie>

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On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 11:34:40PM +0300, Eugene wrote:
> Hi all!
>=20
> While we're on the topic of snapshots, I recently posted this follow-up t=
o=20
> the PR kern/66270 "[hang] dump causes machine freeze"
>=20
> >I wonder what is the status of this PR?
> > I seem to have the same problem with 5.3-RELEASE.
> >
> > Before this started, system worked nicely for more than a year and then=
=20
> >it
> > started to hang during dump (seemingly just after mksnap_ffs) first
> > intermittently and now reproducibly (might increase in data size be a
> > factor? though disk is only about 18% full).
> > Originally it hanged and console had complains about increasing
> > PMAP_SHPGPERPROC and maxproc.
> > After some talk in freebsd-fs, I adjusted these parameters and now it=
=20
> >just
> > hangs without complaining =3D((
> >
> > Any suggestions?
>=20
> In addition to this PR, I found a couple of similar threads in different=
=20
> lists but they all just have some initial talk and preliminary analysis,=
=20
> and then it just stops. Was that snapshot problem fixed or is it the same=
=20
> as we are talking now? I can't believe I am the only one in almost 2 year=
s=20
> who is (trying to be) doing automated backups...
> So, if it was fixed, when (which version)? If not, then when it might be=
=20
> and -- in the meantime -- is there any workaround for backups? (The syste=
m=20
> is the production server on the colocation so doing backups in single-use=
r=20
> mode is not practical).

6.1.

Kris

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