Re: [zfs-discuss] very slow boot: stuck at mounting zfs filesystems

2010-12-09 Thread Frank Van Damme
2010/12/8 : > To explain further theĀ  slow delete problem: > > It is absolutely critical for zfs to manage the incoming data rate. > This is done reasonably well for write transactions. > > Delete transactions, prior to dedup, were very light-weight, nearly free, > so these are not managed. > > Be

Re: [zfs-discuss] very slow boot: stuck at mounting zfs filesystems

2010-12-09 Thread Frank Van Damme
2010/12/8 taemun : > Dedup? Taking a long time to boot after hard reboot after lookup? > > I'll bet that it hard locked whilst deleting some files or a dataset that > was dedup'd. After the delete is started, it spends *ages* cleaning up the > DDT (the table containing a list of dedup'd blocks). If

Re: [zfs-discuss] very slow boot: stuck at mounting zfs filesystems

2010-12-08 Thread taemun
Dedup? Taking a long time to boot after hard reboot after lookup? I'll bet that it hard locked whilst deleting some files or a dataset that was dedup'd. After the delete is started, it spends *ages* cleaning up the DDT (the table containing a list of dedup'd blocks). If you hard lock in the middle

Re: [zfs-discuss] very slow boot: stuck at mounting zfs filesystems

2010-12-08 Thread Fred Liu
slow boot: stuck at mounting zfs filesystems Hi Frank, you might face the problem of lots of snapshots of your filesystems. For each snapshot a device is created during import of the pool. This can easily lead to an extend startup time. At my system it took about 15 minutes for 3500 snapshots. 2010

Re: [zfs-discuss] very slow boot: stuck at mounting zfs filesystems

2010-12-08 Thread Wolfram Tomalla
Hi Frank, you might face the problem of lots of snapshots of your filesystems. For each snapshot a device is created during import of the pool. This can easily lead to an extend startup time. At my system it took about 15 minutes for 3500 snapshots. 2010/12/8 Frank Van Damme > Hello list, > >

[zfs-discuss] very slow boot: stuck at mounting zfs filesystems

2010-12-08 Thread Frank Van Damme
Hello list, I'm having trouble with a server holding a lot of data. After a few months of uptime, it is currently rebooting from a lockup (reason unknown so far) but it is taking hours to boot up again. The boot process is stuck at the stage where it says: mounting zfs filesystems (1/5) the machin