[zfs-discuss] zfs snapshot stalled?

2008-10-20 Thread Carsten Aulbert
Hi all, I've just seen something weird. On a zpool which looks a bit busy right now (~ 100 read op/s, 100 kB/s) I started a zfs snapshot about an hour ago. Until now, a taking a snapshot took usually at few seconds at most even for largish ~TByte file systems. I don't know if the read IOs are

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs snapshot stalled?

2008-10-20 Thread Carsten Aulbert
Hi again, brief update: the process ended successfully (at least a snapshot was created) after close to 2 hrs. Since the load is still the same as before taking the snapshot I blame other users' processes reading from that array for the long snapshot duration. Carsten Aulbert wrote: My