Gents,

We want to understand the mechanism of zfs a bit better.

Q: what is the design/algorithm of zfs in terms of reclaiming unused blocks?
Q: what criteria is there for zfs to start reclaiming blocks

Issue at hand is an LDOM or zone running in a virtual (thin-provisioned) disk on a NFS server and a zpool inside that vdisk. This vdisk tends to grow in size even if the user writes and deletes a file again. Question is, whether this reclaiming of unused blocks can kick in earlier, so that the filesystem doesn't grow much more than what is actually allocated?

Thanks,
heinz


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