A coworker of mine ran into a large ZFS-related bug the other day. He was trying to install Sun Studio 11 on a ZFS filesystem and it just kept on failing. Then he tried to install on a UFS filesystem on the same machine and it worked just fine... After much headscratching and testing and trussing he finally found the reason. pkgadd doesn''t really handle filesystems with 5TB of free space (some statvfs() call fails when pkgadd tries to figure out if there is enough space available for the packages :-) (Yeah yeah - I know... Not really ZFS''s fault :-) This message posted from opensolaris.org
Hi Peter, The bugs are filed: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6430563 Your coworker might be able to workaround this by setting a 10GB quota on the ZFS file system. cs Peter Eriksson wrote:> A coworker of mine ran into a large ZFS-related bug the other day. He was trying to install Sun Studio 11 on a ZFS filesystem and it just kept on failing. Then he tried to install on a UFS filesystem on the same machine and it worked just fine... > > After much headscratching and testing and trussing he finally found the reason. > > pkgadd doesn''t really handle filesystems with 5TB of free space (some statvfs() call fails when pkgadd tries to figure out if there is enough space available for the packages :-) > > (Yeah yeah - I know... Not really ZFS''s fault :-) > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Ah :-) Btw, that bug note is a bit misleading - our usage case had nothing to do with ZFS Root filesystems - he was trying to install in a completely separate filesystem - a very large one. And yes, he found out that setting a quota was a good workaround :-) This message posted from opensolaris.org