Re: ZFS deadlocks/memory accounting issues

Alan Somers <[email protected]> Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:32:42 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.stable
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On Mon, Mar 16, 2026 at 5:30 PM Mark Millard <[email protected]> wrote:
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> ZFS is documented to have the property: "This approach provides
> coherency between memory-mapped and IO access as the expense of wasted
> memory due to having two copies of the file in memory and extra overhead
> caused by the need to copy the contents between the two copies."
> (Chapter 10, page 548, last bullet item of the 2nd edition of the design
> and implementation book.)

That's not relevant in this case, because no ZFS file was mmapped().
It was only a fusefs file that was mmaped().