ZFS Snapshots Not able to be accessed under .zfs/snapshot/name

Shane Ambler FreeBSD at ShaneWare.Biz
Mon Sep 9 23:35:11 UTC 2013


On 09/09/2013 22:38, dweimer wrote:

> A quick update on this, in case anyone else runs into it, I did
> finally try on the 2nd of this month to delete my UFS volume, and
> create a new ZFS volume to replace it.  I recreated the Squid cache
> directories and let squid start over building up cache.  So far their
> hasn't been a noticeable impact on performance with the switch over,
> and the snapshot problem has not reoccurred since making the change.
> Its only a week into running this way but the problem before started
> within 36-48 hours.
>

 From what you mentioned earlier you appear to use dates in your snapshot
names. So kern/161968 - shouldn't affect you.

For others using zfs volumes - check kern/161968 : [zfs] [hang] renaming
snapshot with -r including a zvol snapshot causes total ZFS freeze/lockup




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