Re: running mksnap_ffs

2007-01-17 Thread Willem Jan Withagen
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 02:48:18PM +0100, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: Or waiting until the snapshot operation finishes. You (still) haven't determined that it's actually hanging as opposed to just waiting for the snapshot operation to finish. Just upgr

Re: running mksnap_ffs

2007-01-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 02:48:18PM +0100, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: > >Or waiting until the snapshot operation finishes. You (still) haven't > >determined that it's actually hanging as opposed to just waiting for > >the snapshot operation to finish. > > Just upgraded to 6.

Re: running mksnap_ffs

2007-01-17 Thread Willem Jan Withagen
Kris Kennaway wrote: Or waiting until the snapshot operation finishes. You (still) haven't determined that it's actually hanging as opposed to just waiting for the snapshot operation to finish. Just upgraded to 6.2-STABLE, and I must say that things are a LOT better: - It did return a prompt

Re: running mksnap_ffs

2007-01-16 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Kris Kennaway writes: | Thanks for clarifying. Hopefully you and Tor can get something | committed soon! I'm not sure about that. I have to see what has changed since then. That was ... uhm a year ago when I dropped the ball. It's probably a good task for me to look at in the context of -curren

Re: running mksnap_ffs

2007-01-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 09:55:00PM +0100, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: > .. > > >>>The file-system would come to a stop, processes stuck on bio, snap-shots > >>>not finishing etc. This was caused by the system running out of usable > >>>buffers. The change forces them to

Re: running mksnap_ffs

2007-01-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 01:17:33PM -0800, Doug Ambrisko wrote: > Kris Kennaway writes: > | On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 09:26:47PM +0100, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: > | > Doug Ambrisko wrote: > | > >| > or things can get wedged. We have some other patches as well that > | > >might > | > >| > be requir

Re: running mksnap_ffs

2007-01-16 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Kris Kennaway writes: | On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 09:26:47PM +0100, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: | > Doug Ambrisko wrote: | > >| > or things can get wedged. We have some other patches as well that | > >might | > >| > be required. As a hack on a local server we have been using snap shots | > >| > to

Re: running mksnap_ffs

2007-01-16 Thread Willem Jan Withagen
Doug Ambrisko wrote: | > or things can get wedged. We have some other patches as well that might | > be required. As a hack on a local server we have been using snap shots | > to do a "hot" back-up of a data base each morning. This is based on | > 6.x. | | What do you mean by "get wedged"? Ar

Re: running mksnap_ffs

2007-01-16 Thread Willem Jan Withagen
Kris Kennaway wrote: .. The file-system would come to a stop, processes stuck on bio, snap-shots not finishing etc. This was caused by the system running out of usable buffers. The change forces them to be flushed every so often. This is independant of locking. 10 might be to aggresive.

Re: running mksnap_ffs

2007-01-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 09:26:47PM +0100, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: > Doug Ambrisko wrote: > >| > or things can get wedged. We have some other patches as well that > >might > >| > be required. As a hack on a local server we have been using snap shots > >| > to do a "hot" back-up of a data base

Re: running mksnap_ffs

2007-01-16 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Kris Kennaway writes: | On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 10:13:57AM -0800, Doug Ambrisko wrote: | | > FWIW, with this patch I find making snap-shots a lot more reliable: | > | > --- sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_snapshot.c.orig Wed Mar 22 09:42:31 2006 | > +++ sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_snapshot.c Mon Nov 20 14:59:13 2006 | >

Re: running mksnap_ffs

2007-01-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 10:13:57AM -0800, Doug Ambrisko wrote: > FWIW, with this patch I find making snap-shots a lot more reliable: > > --- sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_snapshot.c.orig Wed Mar 22 09:42:31 2006 > +++ sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_snapshot.cMon Nov 20 14:59:13 2006 > @@ -282,6 +282,8 @@ restart: >

Re: running mksnap_ffs

2007-01-16 Thread Doug Ambrisko
/da0a 1.3T422G823G34% 565952 1828334700% | >> | >> 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 mk

Re: running mksnap_ffs

2007-01-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
3G34% 565952 1828334700% > >>>> > >>>>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 snapsh

Re: running mksnap_ffs

2007-01-11 Thread Scott Oertel
/dev/da0a 1.3T422G823G34% 565952 1828334700% 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

Re: running mksnap_ffs

2007-01-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
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Re: running mksnap_ffs

2007-01-11 Thread Scott Oertel
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

Re: running mksnap_ffs

2007-01-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
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 i

Re: running mksnap_ffs

2007-01-04 Thread Willem Jan Withagen
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

Re: running mksnap_ffs

2007-01-03 Thread LI Xin
t; 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 no

Re: running mksnap_ffs

2007-01-03 Thread Kostik Belousov
apacity iused ifree %iused > >>/dev/da0a 1.3T422G823G34% 565952 1828334700% > >> > >>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. > >> > >&g

Re: running mksnap_ffs

2007-01-02 Thread Willem Jan Withagen
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

Re: running mksnap_ffs

2007-01-02 Thread Gary Palmer
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 i

Re: running mksnap_ffs

2007-01-02 Thread Michael Proto
t; 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 no

running mksnap_ffs

2007-01-02 Thread Willem Jan Withagen
. 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