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Date:      Fri, 17 Aug 2007 13:18:12 +0200
From:      Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav <des@des.no>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org, mohans@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NFS hangs
Message-ID:  <20070817111812.GB9640@garage.freebsd.pl>
In-Reply-To: <86bqd6ifjk.fsf@ds4.des.no>
References:  <20070814165423.ebuvjb6dwswkgc8g@webmail.leidinger.net> <20070814153519.GA18648@rot26.obsecurity.org> <86643h3isp.fsf@ds4.des.no> <20070814213515.GA23492@rot26.obsecurity.org> <86d4xp21i3.fsf@ds4.des.no> <86lkccorig.fsf@ds4.des.no> <86tzqz5ia2.fsf@ds4.des.no> <86k5rv5eeg.fsf_-_@ds4.des.no> <20070817105604.GA9640@garage.freebsd.pl> <86bqd6ifjk.fsf@ds4.des.no>

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On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 01:09:03PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote:
> Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav <des@des.no> writes:
> > > Starting to think it might be a server issue after all.  The server r=
uns
> > > 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 th=
at
> > > 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.
>=20
> As I understand it, write operations pass through the ZIL to maintain
> consistency?

No consistency - ZFS is always consistent on disk, but without ZIL, for
example fsync(2) is a no-op, which may confuse NFS clients in an event
of NFS server crash.

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheel.pl
pjd@FreeBSD.org                           http://www.FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer                         Am I Evil? Yes, I Am!

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