On 09/30/15 10:37 AM, John McEntee wrote:
Not quite sure who wants these, so I thought I would start here.
I have a production Open Indiana box that mainly acts as a windows
file server ( inbuilt kernel cifs server, joined to AD domain). We
have an excel file that when opened, changed slightly, then saved
would cause the openinidana server to kernel panic and reboot. I have
about 16 dump files if anyone is interested. It looks to me like zfs
is at fault.
I use mega.nz for posting large files because I can count on both
privacy of it as well as publicly sharing what I want. Also you can
maybe thare same table filled with random data instead of actual one so
more people could test.
Latest OI /dev with some bugs resolved and updated illumos is: 151a9
(/dev). You can try update and running that and report a bug on that to
Openindiana bug tracking
https://www.illumos.org/projects/openindiana/issues
Latest OI with the rolling-release cycle and somewhat regular ISO
release snapshots is Openindiana Hipster. (currently repo is at
/hipster-2015)
This is illumos cifs bug and should be reported to illumos. If one wants
to report a bug for cifs server that comes with illumos, one should be
able to reproduce bug with newest illumos and newest Hipster always
comes with newest illumos.
It is not suggested to run newest OI Hipster in production but there are
also ISO snapshots one can use to install from and then update to test
it with newest illumos.
Since ZFS in illumos (OpenZFS) now (after 151a3) uses ZFS feature flags
and moves away from latest Sun's ZFS version 28, (updates in /dev would
work), to be able to dual-boot both older installation together with new
one and any more recent OI Hipster lost ability to update form /dev,
I use a trick of installing OI Hipster from ISO inside VirtualBox (any
machine with VBox would be fine) and then do zfs send/zfs receive of
both Hipster dataset and installed user dir (make sure it's user that
does not exist yet on physical machine) to physical machine's newly made
Boot environment (whose zfs datastet has been emptied).
That way one can get both OI /dev and OI Hipster on same machine leaving
unupdated ZFS version 28.
So you can test how it behaves with newest illumos kernel with no need
to recompile and install illumos yourself and you have minimal downtime,
because ideally, it would need only one reboot to make new Boot
environment with Hipster active and you can tinker with it's settings
both before zfs send it to physical machine, inside VirtualBox or after,
by changing directly configuration files before booting new BE.
I also suggest you can try test using samba 4 inside OI Hipster instead
of cifs because of greater chance of it being maintained upstream.
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