Re: failed to initialize ZFS library

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 10:13:45AM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote:
> Playing around with ZFS, after the zfs diff snapshot hang, I keep getting
> 
> # zfs list
> internal error: failed to initialize ZFS library
> 
> kobj_load, 428: [%M/zfs/zfs.kmod]: linker error: out of memory
> WARNING: module error: vfs load failed for `zfs', error 12
> 
> ENOMEM? I tried moving /etc/zfs/zpool.cache away in case corruption there
> could cause it, but no change...
> 
> # modload zfs
> modload: zfs: Cannot allocate memory
> 
> total memory = 16291 MB
> avail memory = 15725 MB

module_newmodule()  mod = kmem_zalloc(sizeof(*mod), KM_SLEEP);
but struct module doesn't look "big"

(modload wsbell succeeded)


Cheers,

Patrick