UFS2 Snapshots in 6.1-Beta4 - Confirmed Problems

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 12:07:04PM -0800, John Kozubik wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote:
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> > > > > This next one is complicated, and I haven't submitted a PR for it yet, but
> > > > > I believe it is quite serious for reasons I will expand on below.
> > > > >
> > > > > The problem is:  If you completely fill a filesystem (109% usage in `df`
> > > > > on most systems) that has a snapshot on it, the system becomes very
> > > > > unresponsive - all interactive and disk response lags terribly and,
> > > > > although the system is not hung, it is in many cases unusable.
> > > >
> > > > Yes :-( This will probably not be fixable in time for 6.1, but
> > > > hopefully it will be addressed in the future.  FYI, the system may
> > > > also panic in this situation.
> > >
> > >
> > > Because my original description of this behavior was so vague, I was going
> > > to try to reproduce it again with more details, however it sounds like you
> > > have already witnessed this and know more about it than I do.
> > >
> > > Is that true ?  Can I skip a few hours of trying to reproduce this ?
> >
> > Yes, I'm easily able to reproduce it, and I'm told that fixing it will
> > require fairly extensive work & testing.
> 
> 
> Ok.  Please contact me when that testing is needed as I am happy to help.
> 
> Can I use this time to suggest that in all testing of snapshot related
> issues, that multiple (preferably 4+) snapshots per filesystem are used ?
> Many of the problems either do not manifest themselves, or are not as
> pronounced with only one snapshot running.

Yeah, I usually use 20 ;-)

Kris
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