illumos

2020-01-29

03:31 PM illumos gate Bug #12237: zpool coredump, vdev_open() returns EDOM with disk image file (but not zvol) from bhyve

property `device-blksize` is evidently the logical block size , in this case again from the underlying filesystem a... James Blachly

03:28 PM illumos gate Bug #12237: zpool coredump, vdev_open() returns EDOM with disk image file (but not zvol) from bhyve

Thanks.
Do you have any other insight into the lack of " :lba-access-ok" flag on file-backed virtio-block? Clearly... James Blachly

02:35 AM illumos gate Bug #12237: zpool coredump, vdev_open() returns EDOM with disk image file (but not zvol) from bhyve

Hans:
12.1-RELEASE-p1
I am using churchers/vm-bhyve (https://github.com/churchers/vm-bhyve) to manage launching... James Blachly

2020-01-22

05:24 AM illumos gate Bug #12237: zpool coredump, vdev_open() returns EDOM with disk image file (but not zvol) from bhyve

(note to self) :lba-access-ok is checked for and added here:
https://grok.elemental.org/source/xref/illumos-gate/u... James Blachly

04:53 AM illumos gate Bug #12237: zpool coredump, vdev_open() returns EDOM with disk image file (but not zvol) from bhyve

prtpicl -v may show the difference between the two.
the zvol backed device has the property :lba-access-ok, while ... James Blachly

04:43 AM illumos gate Bug #12237 (New): zpool coredump, vdev_open() returns EDOM with disk image file (but not zvol) from bhyve

Background:
I was unable to install OmniOS or OpenIndiana (did not further attempt SmartOS but presume same) in a VM... James Blachly

2017-07-10

03:04 AM illumos gate Feature #7938: disable LBA weighting on files and SSDs

Yuri Pankov wrote:
> James, are you still working on this?
Yes -- thanks for ping. Got busy with work. Patch is d... James Blachly

2017-03-05

06:24 PM illumos gate Feature #7938 (New): disable LBA weighting on files and SSDs

ZFS on Linux has had a feature "Disable LBA weighting on SSD" since August 2015:
http://open-zfs.org/wiki/Features... James Blachly

2017-02-16

01:39 PM illumos gate Feature #7882 (Closed): Add /dev/full , the always-full memory device

Linux and FreeBSD implement /dev/full , an always full memory device. Reads behave like /dev/zero, but a write always... James Blachly

2016-08-31

03:13 AM illumos gate Bug #7344: wcsncasecmp shouldn't take one for the road

So, further datapoint: I've just found that for demo1, which fails with C++, it correctly returns zero if compiled wi... James Blachly