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Date:      Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:31:10 +0200
From:      Henri Hennebert <hlh@restart.be>
To:        Doug Rabson <dfr@rabson.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /boot/loader can't load kernel if too many pool/devices
Message-ID:  <4A24FF6E.7020209@restart.be>
In-Reply-To: <B266CCAD-83F8-4906-AE97-B001CACCC26A@rabson.org>
References:  <4A23ABF2.3070601@restart.be> <B266CCAD-83F8-4906-AE97-B001CACCC26A@rabson.org>

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Doug Rabson wrote:
> 
> On 1 Jun 2009, at 11:22, Henri Hennebert wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> I recently increased the number of file descriptors available for 
> /boot/loader. Could you rebuild and try again please. Make sure you 
> rebuild libstand.a as well as /boot/loader.
> 
OK - I can boot with the USB key and 4 disks

Thanks

Henri



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