svn commit: r218700 - head/sbin/mksnap_ffs

[Giorgos Keramidas]

Author: keramida (doc committer)
Date: Tue Feb 15 07:25:54 2011
New Revision: 218700
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/218700

Log:
  Note that a UFS filesystem can have up to 20 active snapshots.
  
  PR:		docs/151104
  Submitted by:	Aldis Berjoza <aldis at bsdroot.lv>
  MFC after:	3 days

Modified:
  head/sbin/mksnap_ffs/mksnap_ffs.8

Modified: head/sbin/mksnap_ffs/mksnap_ffs.8
==============================================================================
--- head/sbin/mksnap_ffs/mksnap_ffs.8	Tue Feb 15 07:16:27 2011	(r218699)
+++ head/sbin/mksnap_ffs/mksnap_ffs.8	Tue Feb 15 07:25:54 2011	(r218700)
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd May 29, 2009
+.Dd February 14, 2011
 .Dt MKSNAP_FFS 8
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -79,3 +79,12 @@ utility first appeared in
 .Sh CAVEATS
 The disk full situation is not handled gracefully and may
 lead to a system panic when no free blocks are found.
+.Pp
+Every filesystem can have only up to 20 active snapshots.
+When this limit is reached, attempting to create more snapshots
+fails with
+.Er ENOSPC ,
+and
+.Nm
+reports that it is
+.Dq out of space .