Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 17:01:46 -0800 (PST) From: Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org> To: joseph@randomnetworks.com Cc: mckusick@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.2.1-RC2 fs snapshot problems. Message-ID: <200402170101.i1H11k7E048190@gw.catspoiler.org> In-Reply-To: <20040216155005.J4957@randomservers>
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On 16 Feb, Joseph Scott wrote: > > I just finished testing a fresh install of FreeBSD 5.2.1-RC2 and > have verified that the problem mentioned in PR kern/58154 is still there. > The problem is fairly simple to show: > > 1. Install a fresh 5.2.1-RC2 system. > 2. Shutdown a few times to show that it completes correctly. > 3. Create some snapshots of a filesystem (on 5.2.1-RC2 I did > 3 snapshots of /usr). > 4. Try to shutdown again. > 5. Watch your system hang forever, unable to complete a shutdown > correctly. > > I've done this samething on 3 different systems with the exact > same results every single time. If you cycle the power to reboot and then > delete the snapshot files shutdown is able to work completely once more. > > I'm more than willing to try out patches or different > settings/options in an effort to try and track this down. I would be > thrilled to be able to use fs snapshots for systems at work, but as it > stands not being able to shutdown a system makes the snapshot feature > useless. > > Sorry about cross posting this so much, but I've been trying to > raise the attention level of this problem for weeks now without any luck. I saw this as well a couple of months ago. I think I was running 5.2-CURRENT.
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