Status of ZFS in -stable?

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Freddie Cash <fjwcash at gmail.com> wrote:

> On May 20, 2008 12:08 pm Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
> > On 18 May Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote:
> > > However,  when using Norton Ghost to make backup snapshots, the files
> > > (on ZFS) come out corrupt. They are not corrupt on UFS backed SAMBA
> > > service.
> >
> > Since when does Norton Ghost claim to support ZFS?
> > If not, how can you expect the files *not* to be corrupted?
>
> I believe he is using Samba to share the ZFS filesystem, and that Norton
> Ghost connects to the system via SMB/CIFS.
>
> When he configures the Samba share to use a UFS filesystem, everything
> works.
>
> When he configures the Samba share to use a ZFS filesystem, everything is
> corrupted.


Correct.  If I don't use "verify" ... the backup proceeds normally, but it's
corrupt.  If I turn on verify, the backup stops when it detects the
corruption (somewhere about halfway through).  This is with XP using a
Samba-shared ZFS filesystem.  When XP uses a samba shared UFS filesystem,
all is good.  Additionally, I tried telling samba _not_ to use mmap()
(there's an option), but this didn't fix things.