Re: Curious failure of ZFS snapshots

2008-12-01 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 01:05:48 + Pete French <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about Re: Curious failure of ZFS snapshots: PF> Here is what I am doing - this script is run with an argument '7am' or PF> '7pm' once per day. the mysql database is a slave replication

Re: Curious failure of ZFS snapshots

2008-12-01 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 11:46:40 +0100 Pawel Jakub Dawidek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about Re: Curious failure of ZFS snapshots: PJD> > > GK> mclane# ll /tank/home/pt/.zfs/ PJD> > > GK> ls: snapshot: Bad file descriptor PJD> > > GK> total 0 PJD> Is there

Re: Curious failure of ZFS snapshots

2008-11-29 Thread Pete French
> It's not file system on-disk structure fault, as far as I understand, > because reboot fixes it. I belive it's how you access the snapshots. I was about to say "a reboot doesnt fix it for me" - as I swear i tried that before, but I have discovered you are right, as I just rebooted the server and

Re: Curious failure of ZFS snapshots

2008-11-29 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 01:01:18PM +, Pete French wrote: > > Is there a way for me to reproduce that? > > I am not sure how to reproduce it, as I am unclear as to what > causes is. I have two machines making regular snapshots, one of which > ends up in this state, and one which doesnt. The onl

Re: Curious failure of ZFS snapshots

2008-11-29 Thread Pete French
> Is there a way for me to reproduce that? I am not sure how to reproduce it, as I am unclear as to what causes is. I have two machines making regular snapshots, one of which ends up in this state, and one which doesnt. The only difference is that the one which goes wwrong is actually trying to ac

Re: Curious failure of ZFS snapshots

2008-11-29 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 08:16:35AM -0800, Freddie Cash wrote: > On November 21, 2008 06:41 am Gerrit Kühn wrote: > > On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:15:18 +0100 Gerrit Kühn > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about Re: Curious failure of ZFS > > snapshots: > > > > GK>

Re: Curious failure of ZFS snapshots

2008-11-24 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:16:35 -0800 Freddie Cash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about Re: Curious failure of ZFS snapshots: FC> > GK> mclane# ll /tank/home/pt/.zfs/ FC> > GK> ls: snapshot: Bad file descriptor FC> > GK> total 0 FC> Which shell are you using? I

Re: Curious failure of ZFS snapshots

2008-11-21 Thread Freddie Cash
On November 21, 2008 06:41 am Gerrit Kühn wrote: > On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:15:18 +0100 Gerrit Kühn > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about Re: Curious failure of ZFS > snapshots: > > GK> Right now 3 of them are fine, and one is showing the same problem > you GK> described

Re: Curious failure of ZFS snapshots

2008-11-21 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:02:07 +0200 Nikolay Denev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about Re: Curious failure of ZFS snapshots: ND> I've experienced this problem in the past : ND> http://markmail.org/message/tmle6lqmkfit46ho Yes, that looks quite the same (even the panic). ND> B

Re: Curious failure of ZFS snapshots

2008-11-21 Thread Nikolay Denev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21 Nov, 2008, at 16:41 , Gerrit Kühn wrote: On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:15:18 +0100 Gerrit Kühn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about Re: Curious failure of ZFS snapshots: GK> Right now 3 of them are fine, and one is showing the same proble

Re: Curious failure of ZFS snapshots

2008-11-21 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:15:18 +0100 Gerrit Kühn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about Re: Curious failure of ZFS snapshots: GK> Right now 3 of them are fine, and one is showing the same problem you GK> described: GK> GK> mclane# ll /tank/home/pt/.zfs/ GK> ls: snapshot: Bad file d

Re: Curious failure of ZFS snapshots

2008-11-21 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:39:20 + Pete French <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about Curious failure of ZFS snapshots: PF> On the box with the snapshots being created every day with the same PF> name I quickly end up with unavailable snapshots, and the error PF> message: 'Bad file

Curious failure of ZFS snapshots

2008-11-21 Thread Pete French
I have a couple of boxes here which make daily snapshots of their filesystems. One just makes a snapshot at 7am, called '7am' which it does by deleting the previous days and making a new one called '7am'. The other has snapshots called 'today', 'yesterday', '2daysago' etc, up to a week. It does thi