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Date:      Wed, 26 Apr 2006 13:52:33 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        secmgr <security@jim-liesl.org>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: fsck_ufs locked in snaplk
Message-ID:  <20060426175233.GA28997@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <444FAC9F.7080209@jim-liesl.org>
References:  <20060424091803.L20593@woozle.rinet.ru> <20060424215650.P36233@woozle.rinet.ru> <20060424181531.GA13774@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060425001751.S44618@woozle.rinet.ru> <20060424202859.GA18457@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060425004405.G44618@woozle.rinet.ru> <20060424205026.GA18844@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060425134418.J57625@woozle.rinet.ru> <20060425080932.1rv9hq0rcws4wc84@www.wolves.k12.mo.us> <444FAC9F.7080209@jim-liesl.org>

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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=20
> >reboot would keep the problems at bay.  I upgraded to 6.0 and the=20
> >problems completely disappeared.  I kept 6.0-STABLE running for weeks.=
=20
> > Somewhere along the line, as 6.1 approached, similar problems=20
> >re-appeared, but not exactly the same as what I had in 5.x.  Now=20
> >instead of a complete system hang, individual processes will hang=20
> >while attempting to access a certain filesystem. =20
> I'm running 5.5-pre #5 and dumps using the snap option.  No quotas, low=
=20
> usage.  Nightly dumps hung last weekend, and any new dumps (till I=20
> rebooted) hung.  Other process' access to the drives seemed ok, but hung=
=20
> dump processes were unkillable.  Sorry, didn't have any debug stuff=20
> turned on, so I realize this info is of limited or maybe even no use. =20
> Hadn't seen this before.  If it crops up again, I'll build a new kernel=
=20
> 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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