Are you using V3 or V4? According to my understanding, this step However 2846 seems to be populated with the content from 2845 (including > the stuff I have excluded). > It looks like it's first copying all the stuff from 2845 (even the > excluded path) and then later tries to remove it again from 2846. > Which is also taking forever in the original example as it's a directory > tree with millions of files. > Also in the original example the disk isn't large enough, so we're not > even making it to that stage. >
should require barely extra space. In V3 the "copy" is hard-linking and in V4 it's just new entries in metadata files, in neither case an actual copy of the files in the pool is done (because of deduplication). Maybe you're running out of inodes? Best regards, Guillermo
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