Darren J Moffat wrote:
> Does the ARC get flushed for a dataset when it is unmounted ?

Yes

> What does change when a dataset is unmounted ?
> 
Pretty much everything associated with the dataset should be evicted...
its possible that some of the meta-data may hang around I suppose (I
don't remember off-hand).

> The context of the problem is this:
> 
> create a pool,
> provide the pool encryption key,
> create a dataset with encryption turned on,
> put data into that dataset
>       I see it getting encrypted and written to disk by zio_write,
> zfs umount -a
> zfs mount -a
>       I can read the data back - yeah!.
> 
> However if I export the pool and then reimport it the mount fails with 
> an IO error (and yes I did remember to give the pool the key again).
> 
> A little dtracing shows me that a zap_lookup of VERSION for the 
> encrypted dataset is returning EIO, that causes the mount to ultimately 
> fail.

Could be that this meta data does not get evicted at unmount.

> 
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