NFS regression on recent STABLE

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 08:33:52AM -0600, Josh Paetzel wrote:
> I've been involved with a project at work doing some fun things with NFS.  
> Recently due to changes in a available hardware we did a complete refresh of 
> the system.  New HBAs, new storage boxes, and due to some internal software 
> confusion we updated the OS on the head from 8.1-R with zpool 15 backported to 
> STABLE.
> 
> Our primary client that we were using against this setup was a ESXi 4.1 
> machine.  In a nutshell, it didn't work.  Long description is, ZFS would 
> deadlock and any operation on the pool would hang.  The ESXi instance would 
> mark the NFS mount as unavailable.  I initially thought this could be due to 
> any number of factors, we have new HBAs in the  mix, new storage boxes, a new 
> version of zpool, and one test case.
> 
> Meanwhile, back at the ranch, I have a somewhat similar setup at home.  
> FreeBSD 8.1 NFS server, ESXi 4.1 box mounting an NFS exported ZFS filesystem 
> from the FreeBSD box as a datastore.
> 
> Last night I pulled that box up to STABLE, rebooted it, and a minute after it 
> rebooted the ESXi box marked the NFS datastore as unavailable.  I checked the 
> FreeBSD machine and sure enough it hung doing an ls on the zpool.
> 
> I ran a few tests, and as soon as the ESXi box mounts the NFS export it hangs 
> the ZFS filesystem.  If I don't mount it up, the NFS server does fine.  
> Thinking it might be a ZFS problem I moved the mount to a UFS filesystem.  
> While this doesn't cause the box to hang on filesystem operations, the mount 
> goes unavailable.
> 
> The only other client I have on my network is a FreeBSD 8.1 box, and that has 
> no issues
>  
> All of this is with the standard NFS server, I haven't yet tested with the 
> experimental server.

Sounds relevant, try the patch provided:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2010-November/059853.html

Relevant follow-up:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2010-November/059869.html

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