fsck_ufs locked in snaplk
Kris Kennaway
kris at obsecurity.org
Wed Apr 26 17:53:26 UTC 2006
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 11:23:43AM -0600, secmgr wrote:
> Chris Dillon wrote:
> >
> >I had problems with snapshots and hangs in 5.x. For that, a daily
> >reboot would keep the problems at bay. I upgraded to 6.0 and the
> >problems completely disappeared. I kept 6.0-STABLE running for weeks.
> > Somewhere along the line, as 6.1 approached, similar problems
> >re-appeared, but not exactly the same as what I had in 5.x. Now
> >instead of a complete system hang, individual processes will hang
> >while attempting to access a certain filesystem.
> I'm running 5.5-pre #5 and dumps using the snap option. No quotas, low
> usage. Nightly dumps hung last weekend, and any new dumps (till I
> rebooted) hung. Other process' access to the drives seemed ok, but hung
> dump processes were unkillable. Sorry, didn't have any debug stuff
> turned on, so I realize this info is of limited or maybe even no use.
> Hadn't seen this before. If it crops up again, I'll build a new kernel
> for debugging and try and get more data.
This will probably not be fixed in 5.5; if you need working snapshots
you'll need to update to 6.1.
Kris
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