On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 01:09:03PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote: > Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd_at_FreeBSD.org> writes: > > Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav <des_at_des.no> writes: > > > Starting to think it might be a server issue after all. The server runs > > > CURRENT from 2007-08-03. All exported file systems are ZFS; should I > > > try to disable the ZIL? That's the one part of ZFS I can think of that > > > would interact with NFS in a way other file systems don't. > > I can't see how ZIL can make any difference visible for NFS clients, > > except when your NFS server crashes. Although I'd keep ZFS on suspects > > list, as exporting ZFS file systems over NFS wasn't really heavily > > tested. > > As I understand it, write operations pass through the ZIL to maintain > consistency? No consistency - ZFS is always consistent on disk, but without ZIL, for example fsync(2) is a no-op, which may confuse NFS clients in an event of NFS server crash. -- Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl pjd_at_FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am!
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