hi, On Fri, Feb 20, 2026 at 10:41 PM Greg Troxel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Takashi YAMAMOTO <[email protected]> writes: > > > * is anyone using zfs in netbsd seriously? :-) > > I am using it on my desktop, and a on a dom0 hosting pkg builders. > > It mostly works, except that one must be careful not to simultaneously > > run low on memory > run programs that dirty mmap'd pages (syncthing!)
is it enough to run syncthing from pkgsrc? i tried to make it receive 1024 * 1GB files. it just worked fine for me. > > and probably also not > > run really low on memory such that there is a lot of paging > > > > As I undertand things, from chuq@ figuring out a deadlock after much > offlist discussion with Brad, there is a deadlock from trying to free > pages from the arc and trying to write dirty pages. The fix is to have > two threads for this, instead of one doing both, or at least that's how > FreeBSD does it. > > > * does anyone have a plan to update the codebase to recent openzfs? > > No, but updating would be great. However, my impression is that the > zfs world is getting messy and I am not sure that FreeBSD is really > based on openzfs as clearly as I think you might think. Please just > take this as a caution that the situation seems more complicated the > last few years than it was maybe 5y ago.
