On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 08:57 -0700, melbogia wrote:
> We are using snv_111 and looking at that bug, it should've been fixed for
> this version.
Perhaps - do a 'zfs snapshot -r datap...@mysnap' next time you see the
service dropping to maintenance. If it reports "dataset is busy" then
that's likely the problem.
cheers,
tim
> # cat /etc/release
> OpenSolaris 2009.06 snv_111b X86
> Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
> Use is subject to license terms.
> Assembled 07 May 2009
>
>
> On Apr 14, 2010, at 8:52 AM, Tim Foster wrote:
>
> > 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
> >>>
> >>
> >
> >
>
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