[zfs-discuss] Large ZFS-bug...

Peter Eriksson
Tue, 20 Mar 2007 15:16:58 -0000

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 :-)


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