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The problem occurs after an update of 8-stable from r248120 to r252111. Sometimes shutdown hangs: Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `vnlru' to stop...done Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `bufdaemon' to stop...done Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `syncer' to stop... Syncing disks, vnodes remaining...0 0 done All buffers synced. >From the kernel

I've been playing around with snapshots lately but I've got a problem on one of my servers running 7-STABLE amd64: FreeBSD paladin 7.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #8: Mon Nov 10 20:49:51 GMT 2008 tdb@paladin:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PALADIN amd64 I run the mksnap_ffs command to take the snapshot and some time later the system completely freezes up: paladin# cd /u2/.snap/ paladin#

Colleagues, one of my servers had to be rebooted uncleanly and then I have backgrounded fsck locked for more than an our in snaplk: 742 root 1 -4 4 1320K 688K snaplk 0:02 0.00% fsck_ufs File system in question is 200G gmirror on SATA. Usually making a snapshot (e.g., for making dumps) consumes 3-4 minutes for that fs, so it seems to me that filesystem is in a deadlock. Any

Hi all, I was intending on trying out gjournal on a new disk i've added in my desktop. I had a look to see what the most recent patch provided by Pawel and found http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/patches/gjournal6_20061024.patch I created the directories as per Pawel's original post (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2006-June/001962.html) and the patch succeeded with no failed