So it does appear that it is zpool that hangs, possibly during resilvering (we lost a HDD at midnight, this what was started all this).
After boot: x4500-02:~# zpool status -x pool: zpool1 state: DEGRADED status: One or more devices is currently being resilvered. The pool will continue to function, possibly in a degraded state. action: Wait for the resilver to complete. scrub: resilver in progress, 11.10% done, 2h11m to go config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM zpool1 DEGRADED 0 0 0 raidz1 ONLINE 0 0 0 [snip] c7t3d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 replacing UNAVAIL 0 0 0 insufficient replicas c8t3d0s0/o UNAVAIL 0 0 0 cannot open c8t3d0 UNAVAIL 0 0 0 cannot open raidz1 ONLINE 0 0 0 You can run zpool for about 4-5 minutes, then they start to hang. For example, I tried to issue; # zpool offline zpool1 c8t3d0 .. and the system stops z-responding. # mdb -k ::ps!grep pool R 732 722 732 662 0 0x4a004000 ffffffffb92a8030 zpool > ffffffffb92a8030::walk thread|::findstack -v stack pointer for thread fffffe85285d07e0: fffffe800283fc40 [ fffffe800283fc40 _resume_from_idle+0xf8() ] fffffe800283fc70 swtch+0x12a() fffffe800283fc90 cv_wait+0x68() fffffe800283fcc0 spa_config_enter+0x50() fffffe800283fce0 spa_vdev_enter+0x2a() fffffe800283fd10 vdev_offline+0x29() fffffe800283fd40 zfs_ioc_vdev_offline+0x58() fffffe800283fd80 zfsdev_ioctl+0x13e() fffffe800283fd90 cdev_ioctl+0x1d() fffffe800283fdb0 spec_ioctl+0x50() fffffe800283fde0 fop_ioctl+0x25() fffffe800283fec0 ioctl+0xac() fffffe800283ff10 sys_syscall32+0x101() Similarly, nfs: > ::ps!grep nfsd R 548 1 548 548 1 0x42000000 ffffffffb92ad6d0 nfsd > ffffffffb92ad6d0::walk thread|::findstack -v stack pointer for thread ffffffff9af8e540: fffffe8001046cc0 [ fffffe8001046cc0 _resume_from_idle+0xf8() ] fffffe8001046cf0 swtch+0x12a() fffffe8001046d40 cv_wait_sig_swap_core+0x177() fffffe8001046d50 cv_wait_sig_swap+0xb() fffffe8001046da0 cv_waituntil_sig+0xd7() fffffe8001046e50 poll_common+0x420() fffffe8001046ec0 pollsys+0xbe() fffffe8001046f10 sys_syscall32+0x101() -- Jorgen Lundman | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Administrator | +81 (0)3 -5456-2687 ext 1017 (work) Shibuya-ku, Tokyo | +81 (0)90-5578-8500 (cell) Japan | +81 (0)3 -3375-1767 (home) _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss