UFS2 Snapshots in 6.1-Beta4 - Confirmed Problems.

[Kris Kennaway]

On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 12:58:09PM +0100, Julien Gabel wrote:

> > Let us know if it recurs with your updated kernel.
> 
> Well, it seems ok now with FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #0 Fri Mar 24 03:58 CET
> 2006.  During the creation of the snapshot (either with mksnap_ffs(8) or
> with `dump -L'), the system was not particularly "responsiveness", but it
> seems to be the expected behavior.  FYI, for an UFSv2 file system of
> 260Go with currently ~6.5Go used, it took approximatively ~15mn (on
> recent hardware).
> 
> Globally, and minus the ~15mn of not very good serviceability (http
> requests time-out -- or very, very slow to be served -- and interactive
> shells not very responsive), all seems ok : the snapshot doesn't hang or
> freeze the system globally anymore, and the backup are made correctly
> using `dump -L').  So, good news.

Great, that fits with expectations.

Thanks for testing,
Kris
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