On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 12:05:26AM +0100, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: > Gary Palmer wrote: > >On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 09:06:24PM +0100, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: > >>Hi, > >> > >>I got the following Filesystem: > >>Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused > >>/dev/da0a 1.3T 422G 823G 34% 565952 182833470 0% > >> > >>Running of a 3ware 9550, on a dual core Opteron 242 with 1Gb. > >>The system is used as SMB/NFS server for my other systems here. > >> > >>I would like to make weekly snapshots, but manually running mksnap_ffs > >>freezes access to the disk (I sort of expected that) but the process > >>never terminates. So I let is sit overnight, but looking a gstat did not > >>reveil any activity what so ever... > >>The disk was not released, mksnap_ffs could not be terminated. > >>And things resulted in me rebooting the system. > >> > >>So: > >> - How long should I expect making a snapshot to take: > >> 5, 15, 30min, 1, 2 hour or even more??? > >> - How do I diagnose the reason why it is not terminating? > > > >You forgot to mention what revision of FreeBSD you are running, and > >if you are using quotas or anything else on the filesystem that > >could impact this. > > Yes, I pressed send somewhat to fast: > > [~] [EMAIL PROTECTED]> uname -a > FreeBSD bigsurf.digiware.nl 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #3: Wed > Sep 27 15:57:20 CEST 2006 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BIGSURF amd64
See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug-deadlocks.html for instruction how to gather information needed to debug the problem.
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