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Interestingly this fixes the issue in 4.4.0-23-generic but not
4.4.0-23-lowlatency, and it appears my local builds of master-next on
both 4.4.0-24-generic and 4.4.0-24-lowlatency fail still. perhaps
something in the 4.4.10 sublevel patches changed something. I've also
merged 4.4.11 and 4.4.12 into master-next for my local build to test
against those and so far my generic build hasn't failed but on master-
next plus 4.4.11 merged it was failing. something is fishy and I'm not
sure where, but there's multiple bug reports upstream regarding ztest
and some patches in master - but this truncated cache file patch should
have been in 0.6.5-release anyways.

Also in case this matters, I've been testing on a 2 node NUMA machine
(2x xeon) with ECC memory with no reported memory errors.

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Title:
  ZFS: Running ztest repeatedly for long periods of time eventually
  results in "zdb: can't open 'ztest': No such file or directory"

Status in Native ZFS for Linux:
  New
Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in zfs-linux package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  Problem: Running ztest repeatedly for long periods of time eventually
  results in "zdb: can't open 'ztest': No such file or directory"

  This bug affects the xenial kernel built-in ZFS as well as the package
  zfs-dkms. I don't believe ZFS 0.6.3-stable or 0.6.4-release are
  effected, 0.6.5-release seems to have included the offending commit.
  Sorry for excessive "Affects" tagging, I'm still new to this and
  unsure of the proper packages to report this against and/or how to
  properly add the upstream issues/commits.

  Upstream bug report: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/4129
  "ztest can occasionally fail because zdb cannot locate the pool after several hours of run time. This appears to be caused be an empty cache file."

  How to reproduce: run ztest repeatedly such as a command like this and it will eventually fail:
  ztest -T 3600 && rm /tmp/z* && sleep 3 && ztest -T 3600 && rm /tmp/z* && sleep 3 && ztest -T 3600 && rm /tmp/z* && sleep 3 && ztest -T 3600 && rm /tmp/z* && sleep 3 && ztest -T 3600 && rm /tmp/z* && sleep 3 && ztest -T 3600 && rm /tmp/z* && sleep 3 && ztest -T 3600 && rm /tmp/z* && sleep 3 && ztest -T 3600 && rm /tmp/z* && sleep 3 && ztest -T 3600 && rm /tmp/z* && sleep 3 && ztest -T 3600 && rm /tmp/z* && sleep 3 && ztest -T 3600 && rm /tmp/z* && sleep 3 && ztest -T 3600 && rm /tmp/z*
  (I have /tmp mounted on tmpfs with a 10G limit but I don't believe this is related in any way, and I've confirmed it's not running out of space)

  Upstream fix: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/commit/151f84e2c32f690b92c424d8c55d2dfccaa76e51
  Description: Fix ztest truncated cache file
  "Commit efc412b updated spa_config_write() for Linux 4.2 kernels to
  truncate and overwrite rather than rename the cache file.  This is
  the correct fix but it should have only been applied for the kernel
  build.  In user space rename(2) is needed because ztest depends on
  the cache file."
  Associated pull request for above commit: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/pull/4130

  I'm not sure why this wasn't backported to release but it's in zfs
  master. I've Reproduced this bug on xenial kernels 4.4.0-22-generic,
  4.4.0-23-generic, 4.4.0-22-lowlatency, and 4.4.0-23-lowlatency as well
  as various xenial master-next builds. After applying the above commit
  patch to kernel and building/installing kernel manually, ztest runs
  fine. I've also separately tested the commit patch on zfs-dkms package
  which also appears to fix the issue. Note however, there may still be
  some other outstanding ztest related issues upstream - especially when
  preempt and hires timers are used. I'm currently testing more heavily
  against lowlatency builds and master-next.

  (I'm unsure how to associate this bug with multiple packages but zfs-
  dkms and linux-image-* packages both are affected).

  P.S. Also of note is
  https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/commit/60a4ea3f948f1596b92b666fc7dd21202544edbb
  "Fix inverted logic on none elevator comparison" - which interestingly
  was signed-off-by canonical but curiously not included in the xenial
  kernel or zfs-dkms packages. It was however, backported to
  0.6.5-release upstream.

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