[OmniOS-discuss] LZ4 compression issue heads up

[Sriram Narayanan]

He also provided some updated information later explaining how this issues
comes up in case of specific advanced DTrace scripts, and that users would
not otherwise get affected.

-- Sriram


On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Paul B. Henson <henson at acm.org> wrote:

> Looks like there's an issue with the new LZ4 compression (currently only
> in bloody, I believe) that can cause kernel panics when using dtrace:
>
> https://www.illumos.org/**issues/3705<https://www.illumos.org/issues/3705>
>
> The original author recommends not to use it until it is fixed:
>
> http://www.listbox.com/member/**archive/182191/2013/04/sort/**
> time_rev/page/1/entry/1:108/**20130418161208:3CFA364C-A864-**
> 11E2-BC0A-E2EA6E185C06/<http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182191/2013/04/sort/time_rev/page/1/entry/1:108/20130418161208:3CFA364C-A864-11E2-BC0A-E2EA6E185C06/>
>
> Hopefully the fix will get in upstream quickly and get pulled into bloody
> before the next stable is released, I was planning to deploy LZ4 on my new
> server using the next stable...
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