ZFS exhausts kernel memory just by importing zpools

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Wed, 3 Jul 2019, Nagy, Attila wrote:
>
> I think this is related to how ZFS stores pool metadata in memory. I don't 
> think these scales with the number of the files, but maybe with the number of 
> stored blocks.

There should be a zfs tunable to disable zfs metadata caching.  This 
would make repeated access slower due to more reads, but might allow 
importing the pool.

Bob
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