On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 4:04 AM, Pascal Braun, Continum <pascal.br...@continum.net> wrote: > > Hi, > > > I'm trying to send a zfs pool from an old freebsd 9.0 installation to a new > machine with freebsd 9.1. The pool is quite heavy (about 16TB, lots of > snapshots) and the receiving side keeps crashing on me. The command used to > transfer (run on the old 9.0 installation): > zfs send -R tank@snapshot | ssh 10.10.xx.xx zfs recv -F -d -v tank > > > After a few hours the system stops all writing and I can't start any new > processes. Processes still running like 'zpool iostat' are still working, or > at least it is still reporting something. To me it looks like the filesystem > just disappeared. Unfortunately I'm running root on zfs so I don't have any > logs about this. > The only message I sometimes find on the console are about not being able to > write to swap, which is also on zfs. >
This could be where your problem is happening. While you can create a swap vol on ZFS, that swap vol also requires available memory from the system to perform the swap. As was suggested, try using a dedicated disk / partition as your swap volume. > > Do you have any ideas? I don't even know where to start. > > > regards, Pascal > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" -- DISCLAIMER: No electrons were maimed while sending this message. Only slightly bruised. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
