zfs receive stalls whole system

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Tue, 17 May 2016, Rainer Duffner wrote:
>
> It’s very difficult (well, impossible) to debug, because the system 
> totally hangs and doesn’t accept any keypresses.
>
> Would a ZIL help in this case?
> I always thought that NFS was the only thing that did SYNC writes…

This sounds like a hardware or driver problem.  A dedicated ZIL 
won't help a system which entirely hangs.

Bob
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