Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 14:07:21 +0100 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Peter Schuller <peter.schuller@infidyne.com>, Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: When will ZFS become stable? Message-ID: <4780D289.7020509@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <9bbcef730801060458k4bc9f2d6uc3f097d70e087b68@mail.gmail.com> References: <fll63b$j1c$1@ger.gmane.org> <20080104163352.GA42835@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <9bbcef730801040958t36e48c9fjd0fbfabd49b08b97@mail.gmail.com> <200801061051.26817.peter.schuller@infidyne.com> <9bbcef730801060458k4bc9f2d6uc3f097d70e087b68@mail.gmail.com>
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Ivan Voras wrote: > On 06/01/2008, Peter Schuller <peter.schuller@infidyne.com> wrote: >>> This number is not so large. It seems to be easily crashed by rsync, >>> for example (speaking from my own experience, and also some of my >>> colleagues). >> I can definitely say this is not *generally* true, as I do a lot of >> rsyncing/rdiff-backup:ing and similar stuff (with many files / large files) >> on ZFS without any stability issues. Problems for me have been limited to >> 32bit and the memory exhaustion issue rather than "hard" issues. > > It's not generally true since kmem problems with rsync are often hard > to repeat - I have them on one machine, but not on another, similar > machine. This nonrepeatability is also a part of the problem. > >> But perhaps that's all you are referring to. > > Mostly. I did have a ZFS crash with rsync that wasn't kmem related, > but only once. kmem problems are just tuning. They are not indicative of stability problems in ZFS. Please report any further non-kmem panics you experience. Kris
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