zfs receive gives: internal error: Argument list too long

Ronald Klop ronald-freebsd8 at klop.yi.org
Sun Oct 25 19:54:53 UTC 2009


Hi,

Making a backup to my external USB-disk now fails with the following  
output.

[root at sjakie ~]# zfs send -vi tank/home at repl-20090919_195900  
tank/home at repl-20090921_195900 > /bla.snapshot

# ls -lh /bla*
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   547M Oct 25 20:44 /bla.snapshot

[root at sjakie ~]# zfs receive -F extern/home < /bla.snapshot
internal error: Argument list too long
Abort trap: 6 (core dumped)

# uname -a
FreeBSD sjakie.klop.ws 8.0-RC1 FreeBSD 8.0-RC1 #6: Wed Oct 21 00:57:07  
CEST 2009     root at sjakie.klop.ws:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64

I have two pools 'tank' and 'extern'. I send/recieve several volumes from  
tank to extern.
zpool is version 13 and zfs is version 3

Searching the internet I found this link:
http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6573681

Is this a known bug for freebsd also?
Can anybody help me in continuing my snapshotting process? (Except making  
a new fresh snapshot, which is my last option.)

Ronald.


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