From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 21 20:32:17 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBF4F106566C for ; Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:32:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from swhetzel@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iw0-f203.google.com (mail-iw0-f203.google.com [209.85.223.203]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9084D8FC15 for ; Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:32:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn41 with SMTP id 41so3190678iwn.6 for ; Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:32:17 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=BmdOpBAp8bBoZG1Y6Jsk3/g1nIzhy9UKcDzJX1Pd67Y=; b=ps6W9JILpYOybi6xJxqEesk8sOs+srYUvjjlScQjlaReEWvomV0vx6T0BIpWlT2Alj PBwvIco0FyJfZ0SFzDKhZKkJzuNyyIqjR2hGLL81Ksfa0agVZHXlx2g1XrUPksEkrJ8W hnBkokbo3JuCa8A3iUny19tiPbk/ykHlCqUjw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=NQclrFe9csQQsAPp+0talxUoTaz+TBCWSecWyzQ/zxOLzs3QHaDcOM1pSfJ4wZXitk qbeKZYQd13nuZOEKUsIdzu4Laf2awS/0KAedFcK8y2SDsJFSGQDmxRuElyLF6Cz/7TDR LPwO9tjbwNiDvzHSMpoVsRZV8LuobkKkG44k4= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.121.93 with SMTP id g29mr2915601ibr.13.1258833551441; Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:59:11 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20091121193643.GA14122@icarus.home.lan> References: <4B066B13.1070006@freebsd.org> <4b07ac59.A2Afaf4X0IZlrgGU%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <57200BF94E69E54880C9BB1AF714BBCBA5722E@w2003s01.double-l.local> <20091121193643.GA14122@icarus.home.lan> Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:59:11 -0600 Message-ID: <790a9fff0911211159k14920410g7a76cf6a292f0bae@mail.gmail.com> From: Scot Hetzel To: Jeremy Chadwick Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Johan Hendriks , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 7.2 dies in zfs X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:32:17 -0000 On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 08:07:40PM +0100, Johan Hendriks wrote: >> Randy Bush wrote: >> > imiho, zfs can not be called production ready if it crashes if you >> > do not stand on your left leg, put your right hand in the air, and >> > burn some eye of newt. >> >> This is not a rant, but where do you read that on FreeBSD 7.2 ZFS has >> been marked as production ready. >> As far as i know, on FreeBSD 8.0 ZFS is called production ready. >> >> If you boot your system it probably tell you it is still experimental. >> >> Try running FreeBSD 7-Stable to get the latest ZFS version which on >> FreeBSD is 13 >> On 7.2 it is still at 6 (if I remember it right). > > RELENG_7 uses ZFS v13, RELENG_8 uses ZFS v18. > RELENG_8 is still using ZFS v13. > RELENG_7 and RELENG_8 both, more or less, behave the same way with > regards to ZFS. =A0Both panic on kmem exhaustion. =A0No one has answered = my > question as far as what's needed to stabilise ZFS on either 7.x or 8.x. > Under RELENG_8/i386, you still need to tune ZFS as mentioned in the ZFS Tuning Guide: http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSTuningGuide With RELENG_8/amd64 no tuning is necessary, if the system has at least 2G R= AM. Scot