Re: State of the ZFS port

[Nicolas Joly <njoly%pasteur.fr@localhost>]

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 02:57:03PM +0000, Chavdar Ivanov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> What is the current state of the ZFS port at the moment? is it good
> enough at least for testing (I've read the TODO file and realize it is
> not yet production quality).
> 
> I am getting:
> 
> 
> root@nex07 /home/xci # uname -a
> NetBSD nex07 5.99.62 NetBSD 5.99.62 (GENERIC) #0: Sun Jan 29 14:26:24
> GMT 2012  
> root@nex07:/usr/obj/auto-current/amd64/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC
> amd64
> root@nex07 /home/xci # zpool status
> internal error: failed to initialize ZFS library
> 1 root@nex07 /home/xci # modload solaris
> modload: File exists
> 1 root@nex07 /home/xci # modload zfs
> modload: Cannot allocate memory
> 1 root@nex07 /home/xci # dmesg | tail -3
> uid 0, pid 28945, command ld, on /usr: file system full
> kobj_load, 416: [%M/zfs/zfs.kmod]: linker error: out of memory
> kobj_load, 416: [%M/zfs/zfs.kmod]: linker error: out of memory
> root@nex07 /home/xci # dmesg | grep -i mem
> total memory = 20471 MB
> avail memory = 19832 MB
> 
> 
> I've seen some discussions about this; earlier the problem seemed to
> be that one had to manually create /etc/zfs, then it worked; now this
> is in place, but the module does not load.

IIRC the zfs module is build with debug information turned on, which
makes it too big to be loaded on, at least, amd64. Could you try with
a stripped version ?

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