Re: [zfs-discuss] ENOSPC : No space on file deletion

2006-10-20 Thread Darren Dunham
> Are you telling me that their is no way to access a single > file within the snapshot and remove it? That's correct. The way snapshots are implemented, you cannot modify their contents. If the file or some smaller set of potential files is known beforehand, perhaps you could put t

Re: [zfs-discuss] ENOSPC : No space on file deletion

2006-10-20 Thread Erblichs
Matthew, et al, You haven't identified a solution / workaround? Their is one "large" file within the FS and snapshot that has been backed up. They wish to remove this large file and the system is preventing this because of a additional reference fr

Re: [zfs-discuss] ENOSPC : No space on file deletion

2006-10-19 Thread Matthew Ahrens
Erblichs wrote: Now the stupid question.. If the snapshot is identical to the FS, I can't remove files from the FS because of the snapshot and removing files from the snapshot only removes a reference to the file and leaves the memory. So, how do I

[zfs-discuss] ENOSPC : No space on file deletion

2006-10-19 Thread Erblichs
Hey guys, I think i know what is going on. A set of files was attempted to be deleted on a FS that had almost consumed its reservation. It failed because one or more snapshots hold references to these files and the snaps needed to allocate FS space