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Hello, I recently began noticing that df -h hangs on my Freebsd 8.2 server. I need the output of this command to know current partitions and its sizes. Usually I do a reboot and everything comes back to normal. But I've done this a number of times now and am beginning to suspect there's an...

I want to know if FreeBSD / ZFS or UFS send a flag to lower level drivers regarding File System metadata in fashion similar to Linux where the ext3/4, jfs and other file systems use the REQ_RW_META and BIO_RW_META flags in struct request and struct bio structures respectively to tell lower...

Hi, I've been experimenting with formatting md memory disks with ZFS, the main idea being that I could use compression for more space over the usual UFS md. I'm just wondering if there are any caveats with this, is it a bad idea? So for example with: mdconfig -s 4g -u md1 zpool create -o...

Greetings everyone, I already submitted a bug report for this, (205932) but thought I'd post here anyway. After a fresh, clean install of FreeBSD 10.2 amd64 on modern hardware, before installing any ports or packages, I mounted an ext4 partition read-only from device ada1 on /mnt/adisk on my...

I want to use dump and restore. But I think I don't understand well something. I ran dump -0 -C16 -Laf /home/backup/hdd/dumps/ssdhome.dump /dev/gpt/ssd-home - after ls in restore -f /home/backup/hdd/dumps/ssdhome.dump -i - it's okay. Incremental dump after some seconds: dump -1 -C16 -Laf...

I'm backing up files from a broken down system using a memstick and an additional harddrive. - Three disks in a ZFS raidz pool which I've. - One disk with a fresh UFS filesystem used for backing up files. I'm using rsync -avz on a FreeBSD live CD for copying files to the UFS filesystem, but...