Snapshot ufs blocking

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Sat Mar 11 05:32:04 UTC 2006


On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 10:51:58PM -0600, Eric Anderson wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 10:07:26AM -0600, Eric Anderson wrote:
> >  
> >>Since there's been some chatter about snapshots recently, I thought I'd 
> >>give more snapshots a try along with some quick tests. 
> >>    
> >
> >Per my message yesterday, not all known snapshot bugs are fixed in 6.x
> >yet.
> >  
> 
> Right - I was expecting that.  I'm mostly trying to offer some details 
> on what is not working - if this is already clearly known, and no 
> further debugging is needed, then I'll drift off into silence.  However, 
> if more debugging is needed, including dumps, etc, I can provide those, 
> as I have a real 2TB volume essentially empty I can do hard testing on 
> during daytime hours right now.
> 
> I'm certainly not complaining - just trying to help in the way that I can.

Thanks.  There is an uncommitted patch being circulated that is
believed to address all remaining problems.  It relies on other fixes
in -CURRENT that are not yet merged, but if you're able to test it let
me know and I'll forward.

Kris
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