Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:05:50 +0200 From: Mister Olli <mister.olli@googlemail.com> To: Kip Macy <kmacy@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to delete files on ZFS volume Message-ID: <1245607551.4757.18.camel@phoenix.blechhirn.net> In-Reply-To: <3c1674c90906201736o335b4a3dv862139dc55f2211f@mail.gmail.com> References: <1245519413.26909.60.camel@phoenix.blechhirn.net> <3c1674c90906201050w15e4cd5dpae76cd70d64b4e92@mail.gmail.com> <1245525965.26909.69.camel@phoenix.blechhirn.net> <3c1674c90906201232x63ddee19yf91aeac30f3401bb@mail.gmail.com> <1245527381.26909.82.camel@phoenix.blechhirn.net> <3c1674c90906201736o335b4a3dv862139dc55f2211f@mail.gmail.com>
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hi, On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 17:36 -0700, Kip Macy wrote: > > [snip] > > The closest I can come to defining it would be "fluctuation of > contents". By this I was asking if you repeatedly created and deleted > files. ok, I understand now. There's actually no real fluctuation, since I only add content, but do not delete anything. > I didn't think it would be this easy to provoke this. I've tried > provoking this with a handful of large files without success. I'm > guessing that ZFS isn't as careful about bounding metadata creation as > it is data creation. > > My focus is, and for the foreseeable future will be, fixing FreeBSD > integration issues. As this is a fundamental ZFS space management > issue I don't foresee fixing it any time soon if at all unless it is > addressed by upgrading to v15 or v16. Is that possible already? From my understanding 8-CURRENT creates pools with version13 atm. > I hope that truncating some of the files will free up space for deletion. would be nice to test that, but I just recognized that my xen play machine is down due to power supply problems. Since I don't have the time to fix that, regard this problem as 'unimorrtant' ;-)) Anyway I will give you feedback, when I managed to repair it. Regards, --- Mr. Olli
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