Re: State of the ZFS port

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

On 30 January 2012 17:00, Christos Zoulas <christos%astron.com@localhost> wrote:
> In article 
> <CAG0OUxgLdPe=Ep-e36dZ=zy+vApFUvePn+9ULQuhXwzVGvaPEw%mail.gmail.com@localhost>,
> Chavdar Ivanov  <ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>>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
>
> no, either just strip the debugging symbols or rebuild it without debugging.
> Stripping everything does not work.

Right, took off '-DDIAGNOSTIC -g' and now it loads. Doesn't seem to
see the pool available from a previous OpenSolaris (actually Nexenta)
system, I'll check later.

Chavdar Ivanov
>
> christos
>



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