Kris Kennaway <kris_at_obsecurity.org> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 07:47:17PM +0100, Bruce M Simpson wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 11:57:37AM -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > > > That sounds like a cool idea. Maybe you could write a small program to do > > > that and an rc.d script for it? Simplest operation would be something like: > > [snip] > > > > I second that this also sounds like a cool idea, albeit limited on a > > per-filesystem basis. Snapshotting all filesystems would obviously be > > a bad idea. > > I tried this once but ran into deadlocks with the snap code. These > might have since been fixed. Also, creating the snapshot was > sometimes taking an exceedingly long time, which is bad since it locks > out all filesystem write access while the operation is in progress. Until just a few minutes ago I thought snapshots were perfectly stable :-/ I have never had problems with bgfsck or dump -L but I managed to get: panic("initiate_write_inodeblock_ufs2: already started"); while doing a "make kernel" with bgfsck going on. The coredump lunched so I don't have more info than that. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''''''''''\ <> green_at_FreeBSD.org \ The Power to Serve! \ Opinions expressed are my own. \,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,\Received on Tue Apr 20 2004 - 18:09:00 UTC
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