> On May 12, 2016, at 7:01 AM, Peter Tribble <peter.trib...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Does anyone know what the overhead of a zfs snapshot is? > > I'm not talking about the data, I'm talking about whatever space > zfs needs to allocate internally for housekeeping. > > A quick estimate indicates something around 2M of overhead. > > (I've just deleted ~35k snapshots on a system, each taking no space. > I was a little surprised - although pleased - to get ~70G of space back > in the pool.)
I'd highly recommend asking this question and sharing your observations with the ZFS developer's list. In fact, why don't I just do that for you... Dan ------------------------------------------- openzfs-developer Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/274414/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/274414/28015062-cce53afa Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=28015062&id_secret=28015062-f966d51c Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
