> My system/file system locks up periodically, and (as I recently
> discovered) I don't even appear to have dumps/snapshots enabled. If the
> system doesn't lock up hard, any command that needs to read from the
> filesystem (i.e. running any command that's not built into rc) causes
> the shell to hang uninterruptably. MMDV (My Mileage Does Vary).
This is the exact scenario I had when I ran fossil + venti with ephemerial
snapshots enabled, are you sure you don't have them on?
try
fossil/conf /dev/sd??/fossil | grep snaptime
This is an example of ephemerial snapshots enabled:
fsys main snaptime -s 15 -a 0400 -t 3600
and disabled:
fsys main snaptime -s none -a 0400 -t none
-Steve