fsck_ufs locked in snaplk

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 11:23:43AM -0600, secmgr wrote:
> Chris Dillon wrote:
> >
> >I had problems with snapshots and hangs in 5.x.  For that, a daily 
> >reboot would keep the problems at bay.  I upgraded to 6.0 and the 
> >problems completely disappeared.  I kept 6.0-STABLE running for weeks. 
> > Somewhere along the line, as 6.1 approached, similar problems 
> >re-appeared, but not exactly the same as what I had in 5.x.  Now 
> >instead of a complete system hang, individual processes will hang 
> >while attempting to access a certain filesystem.  
> I'm running 5.5-pre #5 and dumps using the snap option.  No quotas, low 
> usage.  Nightly dumps hung last weekend, and any new dumps (till I 
> rebooted) hung.  Other process' access to the drives seemed ok, but hung 
> dump processes were unkillable.  Sorry, didn't have any debug stuff 
> turned on, so I realize this info is of limited or maybe even no use.  
> Hadn't seen this before.  If it crops up again, I'll build a new kernel 
> for debugging and try and get more data.

This will probably not be fixed in 5.5; if you need working snapshots
you'll need to update to 6.1.

Kris
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