Re: [zfs-discuss] Large size variations - what is canonical method

2010-04-20 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: I'm seeing a really big (to big to be excused lightly) difference with the 2 zfs native methods zpool and rpool Typo alert: The above line should have read: the 2 zfs native methods ZPOOL list and ZFS list compared to 2 native unix

Re: [zfs-discuss] Large size variations - what is canonical method

2010-04-19 Thread Harry Putnam
Will Murnane will.murn...@gmail.com writes: In short, there are many commands because there are many answers, and many questions. No single tool has all the information available to it. Thanks for such a complete answer... and nicely put too. ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] Large size variations - what is canonical method

2010-04-19 Thread Harry Putnam
Will Murnane will.murn...@gmail.com writes: It's important to consider what you want this data for. Considering upgrading your storage to get more room? Check out zpool list. Need to know whether accounting or engineering is using more space? Look at zfs list. Looking at a sparse or

Re: [zfs-discuss] Large size variations - what is canonical method

2010-04-19 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Hi Harry, Both du and df are pre-ZFS commands and don't really understand ZFS space issues, which are described in the ZFS FAQ here: http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+zfs/faq Why does du(1) report different file sizes for ZFS and UFS? Why doesn't the space consumption that is

Re: [zfs-discuss] Large size variations - what is canonical method

2010-04-18 Thread Will Murnane
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 20:08, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Seems like you can get some pretty large discrepancies in sizes of pools. and directories. They all answer different things, sure, but they're all things that an administrator might want to know. zpool list How many bytes