[OpenIndiana-discuss] Blocking disk operations

[dan]

Thank you for the beer and to point it out.. ;)

Dan
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Aug 28, 2025 03:28:10 Carl Brewer via openindiana-discuss <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>:

> I used to use some portable USB drives as backups (a 2TB USB is cheap!), and push borg backups to them, but after "a while" (weeks? months?) they'd jam up the system and zfs list etc would lock up.  I removed the USB drives and the problem stopped.
> 
> older illumos kernel, but "you are not alone". I never bothered to submit any sort of bug report, I figured it was probably just cheapy drives causing the problem.
> 
> Carl