Simon Breden wrote: > I installed b87 today and then I made a copy of a directory. > > To my surprise, a few seconds later the drive access light went out. Upon > inspection, only a couple of the files had been copied, and the cp command > appeared to have hung. > > I did: cp -r dir1 dir2 > > ps -el showed that cp was still running but not taking much, if any, > processor time. Nothing changed after a minute or so, so I tried to kill the > cp process with -15, then a -9. Even that failed. >
This is usually a symptom of broken hardware. The reason kill -9 didn't work is because the process is waiting for the I/O to complete and it hasn't completed yet. When the I/O completes or times out, then the process will start, get the kill signal and die. The timeout may be on the order of 3-5 minutes for simple disks, though it may be longer for some configurations. Take a look at "fmdump -e" to see if there are errors being logged. [note to self: file RFE for the system log viewer to grab fmdump output] -- richard > Using the file manager (nautilus?), all I saw was a spinning logo and no > files when I tried to access the directory where I copied data to. > > Thinking this was a bug in b87, I rolled back to b85. Back in b85, I tried > the same thing, and again, it failed in exactly the same way. So it was > nothing to do with b87, but in fact, something funny to do with my files. I > did a scrub and saw no errors. > > What I now need to do is diagnose the problem. What do people here suggest I > do next to find the root cause of this problem? I suspect there's something > screwy with the files in the source directory -- some funny attribute > somewhere (I remember some bug in b82 with file dates around 1970 or > something). Luckily this directory didn't contain many files and I have a > copy anyway, and the data is not critical. > > --------------------------------- > Blog: http://breden.org.uk > --------------------------------- > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
