On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 08:48 -0700, melbogia wrote: > It seems it was not able to take a recursive snapshot of > datap...@zfs-auto-snap:daily-2010-04-13-00:00 and dropped down to > maintenance. Would it be possible to find more information about why > it was unable to do that?
Is this an old system? There was a ZFS bug http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6462803 which we used to hit quite frequently. cheers, tim > I was not aware of 'svcadm mark..', which is nice. > > > On Apr 14, 2010, at 8:36 AM, Tim Foster wrote: > > > On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 08:28 -0700, melbogia wrote: > >> Hello, > >> Yesterday the zfs/auto-snapshot:daily service went into maintenance > >> mode and I am trying to figure out why. This is what I see but nothing > >> explains why it went into maintenance mode. > > > > There's a bunch of reasons why we can drop to maintenance. The service > > should have logged the reason to syslog (/var/adm/messages) though. > > > > Apart from during service start/stop, at the moment the auto-snapshot > > jobs run from a cron job as a non-root user, and as such, can't write to > > the SMF logs. > > > > It would be nice to be able to provide a message along with the call to > > 'svcadm mark maintenance <instance>' to explain why we're dropping the > > service to maintenance. > > > >> I tried disabling and enabling the service and it came back up. But why > >> did it went down? > > > > There should be info in syslog. > > > > cheers, > > tim > > > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
