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Date:      Sun, 6 Jan 2008 13:58:23 +0100
From:      "Ivan Voras" <ivoras@freebsd.org>
To:        "Peter Schuller" <peter.schuller@infidyne.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: When will ZFS become stable?
Message-ID:  <9bbcef730801060458k4bc9f2d6uc3f097d70e087b68@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200801061051.26817.peter.schuller@infidyne.com>
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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.



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