On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 09:06:35AM +0100, Stephen Borrill wrote:
> I found [snapshot backups] hung the machine about once a week when ran
> nightly and so had to stop using it in production.

same here.  it was either that or looping inode backups.

NetBSD aragorn 3.1_STABLE NetBSD 3.1_STABLE (GENERIC) #0: Tue Mar 20 20:50:30 PDT 2007 agrier@boromir.poofy.goof.com:/var/obj/3/amd/aragorn/usr/projects/NetBSD/3/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC i386

what were you running?

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