Re: Finding an available fss device

[Edgar Fuß <ef%math.uni-bonn.de@localhost>]

> Well, the cause is not yet completely clear to me, but the user 
> experience is terrible. The first time I used it, I thought
> the system crashed, because fssconfig -l was just hung for 
> hours.
My experience is that an external snapshot runs much, much faster.
It may even be the case that an "external" snapshot with the backup area 
on the same device is fast, too -- I don't recall.
I never ever understood this.