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Subject: Re: NFS hangs
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Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav <des@des.no> writes:
> > Starting to think it might be a server issue after all.  The server runs
> > CURRENT from 2007-08-03.  All exported file systems are ZFS; should I
> > try to disable the ZIL?  That's the one part of ZFS I can think of that
> > would interact with NFS in a way other file systems don't.
> I can't see how ZIL can make any difference visible for NFS clients,
> except when your NFS server crashes. Although I'd keep ZFS on suspects
> list, as exporting ZFS file systems over NFS wasn't really heavily
> tested.

As I understand it, write operations pass through the ZIL to maintain
consistency?

Anyway, disabling the ZIL had no effect.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no