On 20 October, 2009 - Matthew Ahrens sent me these 0,7K bytes:

> Tomas Ögren wrote:
>> On a related note, there is a way to still have quota used even after
>> all files are removed, S10u8/SPARC:
>
> In this case there are two directories that have not actually been 
> removed. They have been removed from the namespace, but they are still 
> open, eg due to some process's working directory being in them.

Only a few processes in total were involved in this dir.. cd into the
fs, untar the tarball, remove it all, cd out, run sync. Quota usage
still remains.

> This is confirmed by your zdb output, there are 2 directories on the
> delete queue. You can force it to be flushed by unmounting and
> re-mounting your filesystem.

.. which isn't such a good workaround for a busy home directory server
which I will use this in shortly...

I have to say a big thank you for this userquota anyway, because I tried
the "one fs per user" way first, and it just didn't scale to our 3-4000
users, but I still want to use ZFS.

/Tomas
-- 
Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/
|- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå
`- Sysadmin at {cs,acc}.umu.se
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