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Date:      Fri, 3 Feb 2017 12:42:51 +0000
From:      Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org>
To:        Ultima <ultima1252@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: zfs snapshot_limit is not respected
Message-ID:  <20170203124251.GA68015@in-addr.com>
In-Reply-To: <CANJ8om7HKhXB8RoaisBay-L70EzLDSBmiV_fnJqBOwohrCC3sQ@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <CANJ8om7HKhXB8RoaisBay-L70EzLDSBmiV_fnJqBOwohrCC3sQ@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 09:31:58PM -0500, Ultima wrote:
> I recently moved some data on a box with limited space. I decided I should
> limit the snapshots so that space would not become an issue. I just check
> back a week later to find out the box is hitting the borderline. Doing I
> quick check I realized that the snapshot_limit is not being respected.
> 
> # uname -a
> FreeBSD R1 11.0-STABLE FreeBSD 11.0-STABLE #17 r312232: Sun Jan 15 10:59:10
> EST 2017     root@S1:/usr/src/11-STABLE/obj/usr/src/11-STABLE/src/sys/MYKERNEL
>  amd64
> 
> # zfs create zroot/bhyve/test
> # zfs set snapshot_limit=0 zroot/bhyve/test
> # zfs snapshot zroot/bhyve/test@1
> 
> 
> # zfs snapshot zroot/bhyve/test@2
> # zfs snapshot zroot/bhyve/test@3
> # zfs list -t snapshot | grep zroot/bhyve/test
> zroot/bhyve/test@1                                           0      -
>  88K  -
> zroot/bhyve/test@2                                           0      -
>  88K  -
> zroot/bhyve/test@3                                           0      -
>  88K  -
> # zfs get all zroot/bhyve/test | grep snapshot
> zroot/bhyve/test  usedbysnapshots       0                      -
> zroot/bhyve/test  snapshot_limit        0                      local
> zroot/bhyve/test  snapshot_count        3                      local
> 
> Also wanted to verify 0 was not being mistaken for none.
> 
> # for snapshot in `zfs list -t snapshot | grep zroot/bhyve/test | awk
> '{print $1}'`; do zfs destroy $snapshot ; done
> 
> # zfs get all zroot/bhyve/test | grep snapshot
> zroot/bhyve/test  usedbysnapshots       0                      -
> zroot/bhyve/test  snapshot_limit        0                      local
> zroot/bhyve/test  snapshot_count        0                      local
> 
> # zfs set snapshot_limit=1 zroot/bhyve/test
> # zfs snapshot zroot/bhyve/test@1
> # zfs snapshot zroot/bhyve/test@2
> # zfs snapshot zroot/bhyve/test@3
> # zfs get all zroot/bhyve/test | grep snapshot
> zroot/bhyve/test  usedbysnapshots       0                      -
> zroot/bhyve/test  snapshot_limit        1                      local
> zroot/bhyve/test  snapshot_count        3                      local
> 
> 
> Also tested on head
> FreeBSD S1 12.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT #26 r312388: Wed Jan 18
> 12:38:52 EST 2017
> root@S1:/usr/src/head/obj/usr/src/head/src/sys/MYKERNEL-NODEBUG
>  amd64

Hi,

I suspect this line from the manpage is key:

The limit is not enforced if the user is allowed to change the limit

Regards,

Gary



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