Add workaround for broken Linux pipes

Linux has an unresolved hang if you resize a pipe with bytes
in it.

Since there's no obvious way to detect this happening, added a
workaround to disable resizing the pipe buffer if you set an
environment variable.

Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Rich Ercolani <rincebrain@gmail.com>
Closes #13309
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Rich Ercolani
2022-05-09 19:33:55 -04:00
committed by Brian Behlendorf
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@@ -713,6 +713,14 @@ to use
to mount ZFS datasets.
This option is provided for backwards compatibility with older ZFS versions.
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Tells
.Nm zfs
to set the maximum pipe size for sends/recieves.
Disabled by default on Linux
due to an unfixed deadlock in Linux's pipe size handling code.
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