Re: hammer snapshot blocks on high file system activity

[Michael Neumann <mneumann@xxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :Okay, I'm trying now with cpdup /usr /hammer/usr2 and a "cp 10GB-file
> :/hammer" at the same time. But I'm having trouble to delete the
> :/hammer/usr2 directory structure afterwards:
> :
> :   # rm -rf /hammer/usr2
> :   /hammer/usr2/src/usr.bin/paste/paste.1 rename-after-copy failed: No 
> :such file or directory
> :   /hammer/usr2/src/usr.bin/paste/paste.c create (uid 0, euid 0) failed: 
> :No such file or directory
> :   rm: usr2/src/usr.bin: Directory not empty
> :   rm: usr2/src: Directory not empty
> :   rm: usr2/: Directory not empty
>
>     There was some instability a few days ago, which was fixed in
>     commit 60H on the evening of July 7th.  If your kernel is older then
>     that you may have to update and newfs_hammer, then re-test.

Ah great. Right now, I've /home/dcvs and /usr/src on hammer, so it's
unwise to newfs_hammer :). But I will try later.

Thanks a lot!

Regards,

  Michael