From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 1 10:22:46 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D65A1065672; Mon, 1 Jun 2009 10:22:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hlh@restart.be) Received: from tignes.restart.be (tignes.restart.be [IPv6:2001:41d0:2:2d29:0:1::]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C31798FC08; Mon, 1 Jun 2009 10:22:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hlh@restart.be) Received: from restart.be (avoriaz.tunnel.bel [IPv6:2001:41d0:2:2d29:1:ffff::]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "avoriaz.restart.be", Issuer "CA master" (verified OK)) by tignes.restart.be (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2355C4DA4; Mon, 1 Jun 2009 12:22:45 +0200 (CEST) Received: from morzine.restart.bel (morzine.restart.be [IPv6:2001:41d0:2:2d29:1:2::]) (authenticated bits=0) by restart.be (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n51AMgf2029775; Mon, 1 Jun 2009 12:22:42 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from hlh@restart.be) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=restart.be; s=avoriaz; t=1243851764; bh=kzmCRWvfb94/zkyASaqtfGaTWbfeEAiTahWg8tdp7M8=; h=Message-ID:Date:From:MIME-Version:To:Subject:Content-Type: Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=wPp2VxMR/9U7xio2htR/GVS5TiBVykuVFmqc5nsyZ/XiWc4OmwA4MKSAYOOIfM8NH bnnl9sChq5nFbRJDEy5+A== DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=avoriaz; d=restart.be; c=nofws; q=dns; h=message-id:date:from:organization:user-agent:mime-version:to: subject:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-scanned-by; b=V0JcCjvLq+VuWUZa2Xs3c1Wo1XzUkmAqmLlSk9h7uydETElWkl8m42MCb3EwMTPam WwyiJhTfRxw0oKn0eg4LA== Message-ID: <4A23ABF2.3070601@restart.be> Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:22:42 +0200 From: Henri Hennebert Organization: RestartSoft User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090412) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.64 on IPv6:2001:41d0:2:2d29:1:1:: Cc: Subject: /boot/loader can't load kernel if too many pool/devices X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:22:46 -0000 Hello, During my tests (succesful) to directly boot from ZFS (with zfsboot and gptzfsboot) I encounter the error "can't boot 'kernel'" if too many devices/pools are connected to the machine. In my case: 2 SAS disks with 2 pools 2 SATA disks with 2 pools 1 USB key with one pool `heap` command: Active Allocations: 171/173 536576 bytes reserved 527800 bytes allocated `ls` command: open '/' failed: too many open files If I reboot without the USB key all is OK. If I reboot from the USB key after disconnecting 2 disks all is OK. By the way, the /boot/loader in 7.2-STABLE don't work, complains about forth not found. The previous tests were made with 7.2-STABLE (May 31) with /boot/loader from 8.0-CURRENT. Henri