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Date:      Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:50:22 +0100
From:      Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
To:        Goran Lowkrantz <glz@hidden-powers.com>
Cc:        pjd@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: zfs version 13 kernel and zfs version 6 userland tool?
Message-ID:  <20081123215022.77989qtqgijg8zkg@webmail.leidinger.net>
In-Reply-To: <5127CA7792252ECCC495CB5A@[10.255.253.2]>
References:  <20081123204141.25414fy2r5tofx8g@webmail.leidinger.net> <5127CA7792252ECCC495CB5A@[10.255.253.2]>

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Quoting Goran Lowkrantz <glz@hidden-powers.com> (from Sun, 23 Nov 2008 =20
21:24:08 +0100):

> --On Sunday, November 23, 2008 20:41 +0100 Alexander Leidinger =20
> <Alexander@Leidinger.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just half-updated a system to -current from today. This means I booted
>> todays kernel with the old world.
>>
>> Is an old zfs userland tool supposed to work correctly with a recent
>> kernel? All I get is "internal error: out of memory" when I try a zfs
>> list (I noticed a problem as no zfs is mounted). I haven't read anything
>> like it shouldn't work on the mailinglist (as this is the normal way of
>> updating), so here are the loader.conf settings I use:
>> ---snip---
>> vfs.zfs.prefetch_disable=3D1
>> vm.kmem_size=3D"700M"
>> vm.kmem_size_max=3D"700M"
>> vfs.zfs.arc_max=3D"160M"
>> vfs.zfs.vdev.cache.size=3D"5M"
>> ---snip---
>>
>> This i386 system has 768MB of memory.
>>
>> Luckily /usr/src is not on ZFS, so I can install the new world if I want
>> to. But t be able to go back to the old kernel if necessary, I prefer to
>> not blindly update to the new world, except I get a message which tells
>> that it will fix my ZFS problem for sure.
>>
>> Bye,
>> Alexander.
>>
> I had exactly the same problem but mount -t zfs worked so I mounted =20
> all ZFS filesystems and ran installworld with NO_FSCGH=3Dtrue as the =20
> old zfs filesystem was version=3D1 and don't support flags until you =20
> have upgraded the filesystem  to version 3.

I don't have a problem with fschg, as I didn't even try to do an =20
installworld. My problem is the memory error. Can you confirm that you =20
had the same error before the installworld, but not after the =20
installworld?

Bye,
Alexander.

--=20
Now I am depressed ...

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