Willem Jan Withagen wrote: > Hi, > > I got the following Filesystem: > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused > /dev/da0a 1.3T 422G 823G 34% 565952 182833470 0% > > Running of a 3ware 9550, on a dual core Opteron 242 with 1Gb. > The system is used as SMB/NFS server for my other systems here. > > I would like to make weekly snapshots, but manually running mksnap_ffs > freezes access to the disk (I sort of expected that) but the process > never terminates. So I let is sit overnight, but looking a gstat did not > reveil any activity what so ever... > The disk was not released, mksnap_ffs could not be terminated. > And things resulted in me rebooting the system. > > So: > - How long should I expect making a snapshot to take: > 5, 15, 30min, 1, 2 hour or even more??? > - How do I diagnose the reason why it is not terminating? > > --WjW
For a point of reference, I have 2 300GB SerialATA disks in a RAID1 config that I take daily snapshots of. df info: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ar0s1d 283810134 160945668 117188264 58% /r1 As of last night, this snapshot took 18m59.77s to complete. -Proto _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
