Is some combination of gmirror, md file systems, snapshots and, maybe, quotas considered harmful?

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Hello,

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 04:31:56AM -0500, Scott Lambert wrote:

> > I added this machine to our AMANDA setup on March 13, 2009.  
> > 
> > I noticed that mksnap_ffs was running on /home, cpu time used: 0:00.77,
> > as things began to circle the drain.  That was about 30 minutes after
> > the dump attempt had been started by AMANDA.  There were many processes
> > waiting in state D.  This time I did a reboot -n -q and the box rebooted
> > but was still fscking when I got to the office.
> > 
> > # ls -l /home/.snap
> > -r--------   1 root  operator  117285093376 Mar 20 03:18 dump_snapshot

Did you compile the Amanda port with the "-L" option
to dump enabled?

Don't ;-)

Kind regards,

Patrick M. Hausen
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