On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 10:45 -0700, Bart Smaalders wrote: > <aside> > For those of us who've been swapping to zvols for some time, can > you describe the failure modes? > </aside>
I asked about this during the zfs boot inception review -- the high level answer is occasional deadlock in low-memory situations (zfs needs to allocate memory to free memory via pageout/swapout, but the system doesn't have any to give zfs) the relevant bug appears to be: 6528296 system hang while zvol swap space shorted _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
