Re: State of the ZFS port

[Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 30 January 2012 15:23, Nicolas Joly <njoly%pasteur.fr@localhost> wrote:
> 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 ?

If you mean just to strip zfs.kmod, I tried this and am getting

root@nex07 /stand/amd64/5.99.62/modules/zfs # modload ./zfs.kmod
modload: Exec format error

now.

Chavdar Ivanov
>
> --
> Nicolas Joly
>
> Projects and Developments in Bioinformatics
> Institut Pasteur, Paris.



-- 
----