ZFS lockup in "zfs" state

[Antony Mawer]

Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 04:04:12PM +1000, Andrew Hill wrote:
...
>> unfortunately i couldn't get a backtrace or core dump for 'political'
>> reasons (the system was required for use by others) but i'll see if i can
>> get a panic happening after-hours to get some more info...
> 
> I can't tell you what to do or how to do your job, but honestly you
> should be pulling this system out of production and replacing it with a
> different one, or a different implementation, or a different OS.  Your
> users/employees are probably getting ticked off at the crashes, and it
> probably irritates you too.  The added benefit is that you could get
> Scott access to the box.

It's a home fileserver rather than a production "work" system, so the 
challenge is finding another system with an equivalent amount of 
storage.. :-) As one knows these things are often hard enough to procure 
out of a company budget, let alone out of ones own pocket!

--Antony