On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 09:36:06PM -0700, Stuart Anderson wrote:
> Running Solaris 10 Update 3 on an X4500 I have found that it is possible
> to reproducibly block all writes to a ZFS pool by running "chgrp -R"
> on any large filesystem in that pool.  As can be seen below in the zpool
> iostat output below, after about 10-sec of running the chgrp command all
> writes to the pool stop, and the pool starts exclusively running a slow
> background task of 1kB reads.
> 
> At this point the chgrp -R command is not killable via root kill -9,
> and in fact even the command "halt -d" does not do anything.
> 

For posterity this appears to have been fixed in S10U4, at least I am
unable to reproduce the problem that was easy to trigger with S10U3.

Thanks.

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Stuart Anderson  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/~anderson
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