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Date:      Sun, 27 Mar 2011 10:31:05 +0100
From:      Dr Josef Karthauser <josef.karthauser@unitedlane.com>
To:        Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS Problem - full disk, can't recover space :(.
Message-ID:  <094E71D9-B28B-46DB-8EA9-B11F17D5A32A@unitedlane.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110327084355.GA71864@icarus.home.lan>
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On 27 Mar 2011, at 09:43, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
>>>>=20
>>>> This is the problematic filesystem:
>>>>=20
>>>> void/j/legacy-alpha           56.6G  3.41G  56.6G  /j/legacy-alpha
>>>>=20
>>>> No chance that an application is holding any data - I rebooting and =
came up
>>>> in single user mode to try and get this resolved, but no cookie.
>>>=20
>>> Are these filesystems using compression?  Have any quota or =
reservation
>>> filesystem settings set?
>>>=20
>>> "zfs get all" might help, but it'll be a lot of data.  We don't =
mind.
>>>=20
>>=20
>> Ok, here you are. ( http://www.josef-k.net/misc/zfsall.txt.bz2 )
>>=20
>> I suspect that the problem is the same as reported here:
>> http://web.archiveorange.com/archive/v/Lmwutp4HZLFDEkQ1UlX5 namely =
that there was a bug with the handling of sparse files on zfs. The file =
in question that caused the problem is a bayes database from spam =
assassin.
>=20
> That was going to be my next question, actually (yep really :-) ).

So, I guess my next question is, would I be mad to apply the zpool =
version 28 patch to 8.2 and run with that? Or are sparse files so broken =
on zfs that I ought to find some ufs to run the bayesdb on?

Joe



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