On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 09:13:24PM -0600, Keith Bierman wrote: > On Jun 5, 2008, at 8:58 PM 6/5/, Brad Diggs wrote: > > Hi Keith, > > > > Sure you can truncate some files but that effectively corrupts > > the files in our case and would cause more harm than good. The > > only files in our volume are data files. > > So an rm is ok, but a truncation is not? > > Seems odd to me, but if that's your constraint so be it.
Neither will help since before the space can be freed a transaction must be written, which in turn requires free space. (So you say "let ZFS save some just-in-case-space for this," but, how much is enough?) _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
