From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 29 09:59:32 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B64F1D8 for ; Wed, 29 May 2013 09:59:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org) Received: from smarthost1.greenhost.nl (smarthost1.greenhost.nl [195.190.28.78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FDF7A2D for ; Wed, 29 May 2013 09:59:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.greenhost.nl ([213.108.104.138]) by smarthost1.greenhost.nl with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UhdAH-0003r3-D3; Wed, 29 May 2013 11:59:29 +0200 Received: from [81.21.138.17] (helo=ronaldradial.versatec.local) by smtp.greenhost.nl with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UhdAE-0008P8-OL; Wed, 29 May 2013 11:59:26 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed; delsp=yes To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, "Pascal Braun, Continum" Subject: Re: ZFS crashing while zfs recv in progress References: <803931797.154623.1369818240686.JavaMail.root@continum.net> Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 11:59:26 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: "Ronald Klop" Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <803931797.154623.1369818240686.JavaMail.root@continum.net> User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.15 (Win32) X-Virus-Scanned: by clamav at smarthost1.samage.net X-Spam-Level: - X-Spam-Score: -1.9 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=disabled version=3.3.1 X-Scan-Signature: 5a1627636b35b65657045ef62631cd80 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 09:59:32 -0000 On Wed, 29 May 2013 11:04:00 +0200, Pascal Braun, Continum 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. > > > Do you have any ideas? I don't even know where to start. > Please send more information about the new server. Sometimes there are bugs found in drivers with large disks, etc. Or firmware of hardware. The contents of /var/run/dmesg.boot is interesting to a lot of people. As is the output of zpool status. As you are having trouble with swap on zfs. Is it possible to put that on a separate disk for the test? Ronald.