With your last changes, things are much better now: /usr/bin/time fssconfig fss0 /home /home/snaps/snap0 149.85 real 0.00 user 1.16 sys /home: suspended 0.040 sec, redo 0 of 2556 /usr/bin/time fssconfig fss1 /home /home/snaps/snap1 227.49 real 0.00 user 1.90 sys /home: suspended 0.040 sec, redo 0 of 2556 /usr/bin/time fssconfig fss2 /home /home/snaps/snap2 263.58 real 0.00 user 2.97 sys /home: suspended 0.040 sec, redo 0 of 2556 /usr/bin/time fssconfig fss3 /home /home/snaps/snap3 353.23 real 0.00 user 3.88 sys /home: suspended 0.040 sec, redo 0 of 2556
Taking a snapshot will still probably require a lot of time on large filesystems with a dozen snapshots, but at last the server won't hang for a long time. thanks ! -- Manuel Bouyer <bou...@antioche.eu.org> NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference --