dangers of delaying an fsck on busy fileserver ?

[Kostik Belousov]

On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 10:58:26PM -0700, Gore Jarold wrote:
> I have a busy fileserver - 5-20 sftp/rsync processes
> running on it at all times.
> 
> For unknown reasons, this server crashes in the middle
> of the night sometimes.  When it does, I comment out
What exactly you mean by crashing ?

There is one pending MFC that shall cure a deadlock/panic scenario for
busy fs being snapshotted. It awaits re@ approval.

Also, there is a situation where exceeding inode quota on softupdate
fs could cause snapshotting to deadlock (fix is in progress).
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