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    1: # 1. Status of NetBSD zfs port
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    3: NetBSD zfs port is work in progress and can easily panic your system.
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    5: **ZFS currently works ony on i386 and amd64!!**
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    8: # 2. Using NetBSD ZFS port 
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   10: ## Instalation 
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   12: Use any -current build from i386 or amd64 architecture. All tools and modules should be built by default, now. There are 2 modules used for ZFS solaris.kmod and zfs.kmod. Solaris module provides solaris like interfaces to zfs on NetBSD. The second module is zfs and provides zfs file system functions.
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   14: ## Configuration
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   16: User need to
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   18:     modload solaris
   19:     modload zfs
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   21: After loading modules user can create zpool(zfs version of volume manager) and manage zfs file systems on it. 
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   23:     zpool create {zpool name} {type} {device} 
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   25: where type is:
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   27: * mirror
   28: * raidz
   29: * raidz2
   30: * default is normal linear allocation
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   32: device is blod device on netbsd /dev/sd0a for example.
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   34:     zpool create tank mirror /dev/sd0a /dev/sd1a  creates mirrored zpool between 2 disk partitions.
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   36: With zpool created we can create zfs filesystems or zvols(zfs logical volume disks)
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   38:     zfs create -V {size} tank/{zvol name} creates zvol with {zvol name} from ZPOOL called tank
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   40: Logical disk is created in 
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   42:     /dev/zvol/rdsk/{zpool name}/{zvol name} 
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   44:     /dev/zvol/dsk/{zpool name}/{zvol name}
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   46:     zfs create tank/{zfs name} create zfs filesystem on a zpool called tank 
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   48: ## Administration
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   50: After creating ZVOLS and filesystem they are saved in a /etc/zfs/zpool.cache file and loaded after nextzfs module load.
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   53: # 3. Known Bugs
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   55: ## Show stoppers 
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   57: ### amd64
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   59: ### i386 
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   61: ### Both 
   62: * vnode reclaiming deadlocks 
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   64: Current code is quite a hack but it works until I will find some time to rework vnode reclaiming on NetBSD.
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   66: http://nxr.netbsd.org/xref/src/external/cddl/osnet/dist/uts/common/fs/zfs/zfs_vnops.c#4254
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   68: * vnode fsync bug 
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   70:   I think that we are hitting this bug, too. I have some patches in the tree which fixes deadlod in vnode reclaim but after that I'm getting another deadlock in VOP_FSYNC.
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   72: * kmem_cache_alloc/ aka pool_cache_get panicsdue to KM_NOSLEEP flag
   73:  There are some problems in then NEtBSD UVM subsytem when KM_NOSLEEP allocation can fail even if system has enough memory to use. I talked with ad@ about it and he said that there is one problem in uvm where some lock is held, KM_NOSLEEP allocation will fail.
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   75: ## Functional bugs 
   76: * Snapshots
   77: * Permissions
   78: * Old code, we should update NetBSD zfs port to new code
   79: * More tasks can be found at <http://nxr.netbsd.org/xref/src/external/cddl/osnet/TODO>
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   81: # External Documentation links
   82: Nice zfs howto written for zfs + mac os x <http://code.google.com/p/maczfs/wiki/GettingStarted>