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Date:      Wed, 3 Jul 2019 09:13:04 -0700
From:      George Hartzell <hartzell@alerce.com>
To:        Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS filesystem full and logs
Message-ID:  <23836.54288.415221.602813@alice.local>
In-Reply-To: <ff2bd065-d48a-11c0-cd0d-9a53dad733f8@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <9a4367f7-d0b5-e1df-0569-b22a9d182a63@netfence.it> <ff2bd065-d48a-11c0-cd0d-9a53dad733f8@FreeBSD.org>

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Matthew Seaman writes:
 > On 03/07/2019 08:57, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
 > > When using UFS, if a filesystem gets full, this is logged via syslogd.
 > > Can the same happen somehow for ZFS?
 > > If it's possible, how is it done?
 > 
 > ZFS doesn't fill up file systems: it fills up pools[*].  If your entire 
 > zpool is full up, then you'll know about it PDQ, as your machine will be 
 > a very unhappy bunny.  [...]

File systems can have quotas, which one can bump into even when
there's plenty of room in the underlying pool.

Systems can have more than one pool; there might be plenty of room in
one pool (e.g. zroot) while another pool (e.g. zslow) fills up.

g.



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