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

Cindy.Swearingen at Sun.COM
Tue, 20 Mar 2007 21:47:36 -0000

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 :-)
>
>
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