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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