Outside of xen ( it was running in a dom0),the zfs root creation executed flawlessly.
and it seems that these dma error are caused by xen related isssue :(. There is an old thread talking about DMA issues on machine with lots of ram (8gig here.) Reposting to the Xen mailing list. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss