ZFS + Samba/NFS = ugh

[Erik Osterholm]

On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 08:41:34PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote:
> Brooks Talley wrote:
> > Hi everyone.  So far, 7.0 is being pretty darned sweet for me.
> > 
> > It's probably a known issue, but I haven't seen it referenced anywhere: it seems that ZFS filesystems can be shared/exported with Samba/NFS, but they do not accept any kind of writes over the network, and have other issues with smbclient ("Error in diskattr: Call returned zero bytes (EOF)" comes up a lot).
> > 
> > Anyone run into this?  Any known fixes?
> 
> NFS _and_ Samba?
> 
> Samba is a userland daemon - if it had problems, other applications
> would have also had problems.

The issue has been discussed before.  It is very real:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2007-June/072991.html

Erik