The WAPBL resource exhaustion caught my attention. Does this still happen with netbsd-8? I've fixed something like this in WAPBL a while ago, and the fixes are on the release branch.
Jaromir 2017-09-26 14:52 GMT+02:00 Edgar Fuß <[email protected]>: > > How is an internal snapshot defined? > I'm not completely sure. Ask hannken@. > > > The term seems to only exist in dump(8). > And fsck_ffs(8). > > > Is it a snapshot for which the backing store is on the same disk > > the snapshot is done? > I suppose. hannken@ should know. > > My experience is that I regularily take external snapshots (using > fssconfig(8)) > while doing TSM backups, and this works fine even for multi-TB filesystems. > However, taking an internal snapshot (fsck -X) on that filesystem starved > the > machine, eventually paniced it (some WAPBL resource exhaustion) and the log > replay on reboot took something like half an hour. On much smaller > filesystems, > fsck -X works fine. >
