[OpenIndiana-discuss] Zpool crashes system on reboot and import

[CJ Keist]

Thanks. Stephan,
     What is the process or time frame of a bug fix in ZFS from Oracle 
making it's way down to Illuminous and on to OI?


On 12/12/13, 6:38 AM, Stephan Budach wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Am 11.12.13 21:28, schrieb Jim Klimov:
>> Also, that thread mentions that you may use this work around with
>> the read-only dataset with the pool to enable writes to the dataset
>> and keeping it read-only before exporting the pool. Still, yes,
>> "budy" mentions setting the dataset attribute while the pool is
>> imported read-only (Stephan? would you chime in with more details,
>> if that's really you?)
>>
> Yes, that's me.  And I have to confess, that I am still running with
> this zpool since. I had a long running SR with Oracle about this, but in
> the end I was told by Oracle engineering to re-create the zpool, which I
> refused to do.
> So basically, I am still running with this work around of setting the
> affected fs to read-only, before I export the zpool.
> This server is under constant load and I just don't have the time and
> resources to move all 370+ ZFS fs onto another storage.
>
> To make things even worse, this error is inside the data structure of
> the ZFS fs, so zfs send/revc, doesn't help here and the data would have
> to be copied "manually" - nasty indeed.
>
> However, I seem to recall, that Oracle Support told me, that this bug
> had been fixed in S11SRU13. I am not sure, but I could look that up in
> the SR. Of course, this only prevents this from happening to fs that are
> not yet affected by this issue - there's currently no cure, afaik.
>
>> If you manage to reproduce this trick in command-line and if it does
>> indeed help (and if you want to keep using this pool i.e. to help
>> the developers reproduce and fix the core problem) instead of just
>> remaking the pool, you might build on the (unbaked as of yet) scripts
>> and SMF manifests here:
>>
>> http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Advanced+-+ZFS+Pools+as+SMF+services+and+iSCSI+loopback+mounts
>>
> I would go for that, but I don't know, if that'd be to any avail, since
> I am still running S11.
>>
>> This would enable you to code all this logic about setting and removing
>> the readonly bits from your pool around the import-as-a-service, so that
>> your system would "gracefully" import the pool, enable the dataset, etc.
>> and undo this upon proper shutdown.
>>
>> HTH,
>> //Jim Klimov
>
> Cheers,
> budy
>
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