Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 19:14:22 -0400 From: Bob Johnson <fbsdlists@gmail.com> To: Brian McCann <bjmccann@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Snapshots Message-ID: <54db43990508301614579aa094@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2b5f066d05083012413a8a8730@mail.gmail.com> References: <2b5f066d05083012413a8a8730@mail.gmail.com>
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On 8/30/05, Brian McCann <bjmccann@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all...I'm having a problem using snapshots...which I discovered > when I tried a system backup using dump. I've got a 283Gb partition, > and the system was trying to create the snapshot for > 12 hours. I'm > on 5.4-RELEASE. Should this be taking this long? My gut tells me > no...cause it'd be foolish if it did. Any ideas/suggestions? >=20 No, it shouldn't. It appears that there is some problem with the snapshot process on large filesystems in 5.4-RELEASE and perhaps others, but I don't know how aggressively it is being investigated, or whether a solution has already been found. There have been several posts about this in the past month or two, if you search the archives you might find better information about it. I remember there was conjecture about the possible cause (e.g. insufficient temporary storage space for the inode list), but I don't remember if this led to a workable solution. - Bob
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