On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 6:52 AM, Tomas Ögren <st...@acc.umu.se> wrote:

>
> On a different setup, we have about 750 datasets where we would like to
> use a single recursive snapshot, but when doing that all file access
> will be frozen for varying amounts of time (sometimes half an hour or
> way more). Splitting it up into ~30 subsets, doing recursive snapshots
> over those instead has decreased the total snapshot time greatly and cut
> the "frozen time" down to single digit seconds instead of minutes or
> hours.
>

If you can upgrade to zpool version 27 or later, you should see much much
less "frozen time" when doing a "zfs snapshot -r" of thousands of
filesystems.

--matt
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