sysinstall, GJOURNAL and ZFS

[Dmitry Morozovsky]

On Wed, 10 Jun 2009, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:

DS> sthaug at nethelp.no writes:
DS> > I've had several cases that needed manual fsck. After I turned off
DS> > background fsck, the problems stopped. These days background_fsck="NO"
DS> > is a standard part of my rc.conf.
DS> 
DS> Hear, hear.

Well, I can see at least one rather big problem with bgfsck (or with snapshots 
to be more precise): inappropriate time of file system lock on snapshot 
creation. On not-too-big 300G ufs2 not-too-heavy loaded snapshot creation time 
is 20+ minutes, and 5+ from that file system blocked even on reads.  This looks 
unacceptable for me for any real use.

-- 
Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
[ FreeBSD committer:                                 marck at FreeBSD.org ]
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