Julian Elischer said:
Would it not be possible to make the snapshot file not appear in a
directory until it si finished? (I know that would be 'wierd'
but it would give a guaranteed solution..
That sounds kinda neat as a compile time option or non-default (or
perhaps even default) tunable if
as I should be.
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Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 22:38:47 +0200
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Subject: mksnap_ffs, snapshot issues, again
I have 900G array on a promise sx6000 controller
This is freshly
Robert Watson forwarded your posting to me as I am not as current
on current as I should be.
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Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 22:38:47 +0200
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Subject: mksnap_ffs, snapshot issues, again
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kirk McKusick writes:
But, to get to the problem that you are having with accessing your
filesystem. The problem is that although the filesystem is only
locked briefly, the snapshot file is locked for the entire 48 minutes.
Thus, if you touch the snapshot file (by
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Subject: Re: mksnap_ffs, snapshot issues, again
The behaviour of filesystem activity stalling during snapshot creation
is intentional, but 30 minutes to snapshot an empty FS is not. Is
there disk activity during this time? It's not clear from your mail
whether bg fsck is in operation during this time. If so, that's
probably the cause, since
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Branko F. Gracnar wrote:
The behaviour of filesystem activity stalling during snapshot creation
is intentional, but 30 minutes to snapshot an empty FS is not. Is
there disk activity during this time? It's not clear from your mail
whether bg fsck is in operation during
I have 900G array on a promise sx6000 controller
This is freshly formatted filesystem (newfs -L export -O 2 -U -g 48000 -i 2048 -m 0 -o
space /dev/pst0s2d)
# df -i /export
/dev/pst0s2d 778742004 216194 778525810 0% 2 4451592920% /export
# mount | grep export
/dev/pst0s2d on
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 10:38:47PM +0200, Branko F. Gra?nar wrote:
# mksnap_ffs /export aaa.snap
... after 30 minutes ... snapshot was not created (!!! On a empty
filesystem !!!)... Ok, long snapshot creation would be fine if it
would not hang all processes, which would like to do something
