Hi, thanks a lot for your answer. > > we have a freshly installed FreeBSD 6.2 machine with a gstriped external > > disk, > > of 5.3Tb. The disk is composed of two slices of 2.6 Tb. > > We are trying to have a (background) fsck of it but few hours later > > since the start of the check > > the host get unresponsive: it responds to ping but it doesn't let > > login anyone, nor by ssh > > nor by console. > > > What do you get if you press Control-T on the console when it is > unresponsive?
We are not able to login via console nor via ssh. Pheraps you suggest me to press Control-T on the console even if I am not logged on. I did not try, sorry. > > When you do a background fsck there is a point at which a snapshot of > the filesystem is taken, although I'd say that happens at the beginning > of the check. The problem is that with 5.3 Tb, it may take quite a while > to take the snapshot, and during that time the system blocks any process > that tries to write to the filesystem. Maybe that's what you are > experiencing. > What you explained us sounds very interesting. But anyway we simply solved by disabling background fsck on such a big partition. We had panics and reboot and we did not want to risk on a production host. Bye Valerio Daelli _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
