Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 14:28:28 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Daniel Feenberg <feenberg@nber.org> Cc: Mohan Ramanujan <mohan@nber.org>, Alex Aminoff <aminoff@nber.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making UFS snapshots Message-ID: <20050818112828.GA1282@flame.pc> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10508171553480.4409-100000@nber6.nber.org> References: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10508171553480.4409-100000@nber6.nber.org>
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On 2005-08-17 16:32, Daniel Feenberg <feenberg@nber.org> wrote: > > I notice on this list that Garance Drosehn > <http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?p06230924bf1c752ccf7f>; reports making > a snapshot of a 4 gigabyte filesystem in less than one second. We have a > 859 gigabyte filesystem and snapshots take about 75 minutes to complete. Making a snapshot is not very slow if the disk is relatively idle at the time. Perhaps this is what's biting you?
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