Hi there, I've run into a ZFS problem, and have checked through the bugs database but failed to find anything that quite matches the problem I'm seeing.
On mounting a ZFS filesystem (two-disk RAID set, mostly compressed), before anything even accesses the filesystem, the machine's memory usage spikes and eventually locks the machine up entirely. The behaviour is reproducible, insofar as it happens without fail whenever I boot up normally, rendering the machine unusable. Booting in failsafe mode, I can import the pool (without mounting the filesystems) without a problem, but mounting the filesystems causes the problem. The system is an nv_38, so I tried a Nexenta Alpha 7 live CD (I can't recall how old the kernel is in that release, but certainly newer than nv_38) and reproduced the problem with that, too. I also tried an Indiana CD, but that completely failed to boot at all. I'm aware that nv_38 is quite old and is likely to contain problems that have already been addressed, but looking through the bugs database, I can't find any record of an issue that sounds quite the same, so I thought it might make sense to ask if this sounds familiar to anyone before I attempt a newer Nevada. Many thanks, -- C. -- This messages posted from opensolaris.org
