[mythtv-users] zfs-fuse anyone?

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Thu Dec 9 15:08:38 UTC 2010


On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger <lists at xunil.at> wrote:
> Am 09.12.2010 15:56, schrieb John Drescher:
>
>> I have been using it on a test box for 8 months now. Although it may
>> work in mythtv I would not recommend this. The reason is when building
>> my own customized distribution using a tool called metro.
>>
>> http://docs.funtoo.org/wiki/Metro
>>
>> the zfs-fuse filesystem crashes 100% of the time during the distro
>> generation if the source and destination of my distro build are both
>> the same zfs filesystem. It seems that writing and reading 1000s of
>> files simultaneously causes this problem. This works fine however if
>> only 1 is zfs so I moved my /var/tmp to btrfs temporarily. Although
>> mythtv never uses thousands of small files I am worried there are
>> other bugs like this.
>
> May I suggest to report this issue to the guys developing zfs-fuse?
> Should I forward ... ?

I think I should do that with some evidence. I should also grab the
latest git instead of the latest released version.

John


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