Per Francois's response of 11:02 MT Yes adding the patch will free the
space on the file system.
From:
Francois Napoleoni
<francois.napole...@sun.com>
To:
Geoff Shipman
<geoff.ship...@sun.com>
Cc:
Edward Ned Harvey
<sola...@nedharvey.com>,
zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org
<zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org>,
'Robert Loper' <rlo...@gmail.com>
Subject:
Re: [zfs-discuss] Any way to fix ZFS
"sparse file bug" #6792701
Date:
Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:02:13 +0100
Yes iT will ...
But this can be a good time to initiate/justify that useful backup which
we never had time to do before :) .
F.
> Geoff Shipman wrote:
>> Right it would get rid of the CR, but does it free the disk space
from an event that occurred prior to patching ?.
On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 11:15, Robert Loper wrote:
> So the question remains... if I install patch 14144{45}-09 (by a LU to
> Solaris 10 upd 8) will that allow the filesystem (not an rpool) to
> free up the space?
>
> - Robert
>
> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Geoff Shipman <geoff.ship...@sun.com>
> wrote:
> IDR's are fixes for troubles from the initial development
> state. The
> patches noted are the official fixes.
>
> On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 11:03, Robert Loper wrote:
> > Can you clarify what this "IDR" is? I do not have Sun
> Support on this
> > specific server.
> >
> > - Robert Loper
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Francois Napoleoni
> > <francois.napole...@sun.com> wrote:
> > From my experience with customer hitting this bug,
> installing
> > the now obsolete IDR and rebooting was enoug hto get
> ride of
> > these sparse file bug.
> >
> > F.
> >
> > Geoff Shipman wrote:
> > The Solaris 10 Update 8 has the fix for
> 6792701
> > included. This is part
> > of kernel patches 141444-09 (sparc),
> 141445-09 (x86).
> > For OpenSolaris
> > build 118 or later contains the fix so in
> the
> > development builds.
> > This avoids future problems with the CR but
> if your
> > currently effected
> > by the problem the fix doesn't clear the
> troubles.
> >
> > I believe a backup of the data, then destroy
> of the
> > file system, then
> > recreating it and restoring is method to
> clear the
> > space. With the
> > later kernel the problem is avoided in the
> future.
> >
> > Geoff
> >
> > On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 10:14, Francois
> Napoleoni wrote:
> > If you have a valid Solaris Support
> contract
> > you can ask for the corresponding
> IDR to fix
> > this issue.
> >
> > (Hi to Richard E. ... who must be
> boiling
> > right now :) )
> >
> > F.
> >
> > Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> > I don?t know the answer to
> your
> > question, but I am running
> the same
> > version of OS you are, and
> this bug
> > could affect us. Do you
> have
> > any
> > link to any documentation
> about this
> > bug? I?d like to forward
> > something
> > to inform the other admins
> at work.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > *From:*
> >
> zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org
> >
> [mailto:zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] *On Behalf Of
> *Robert
> > Loper
> > *Sent:* Tuesday, March 02,
> 2010 12:09
> > PM
> > *To:*
> zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org
> > *Subject:* [zfs-discuss] Any
> way to
> > fix ZFS "sparse file bug"
> > #6792701
> >
> > I have a Solaris x86 server
> running
> > update 6 (Solaris 10 10/08
> > s10x_u6wos_07b X86). I
> recently hit
> > this "sparse file bug" when
> I deleted
> > a 512GB sparse file from a
> 1.2TB
> > filesystem and the space
> > was
> > never freed up. What I am
> asking is
> > would there be any way to
> > recover
> > the space in the filesystem
> without
> > having to destroy and
> recreate
> > it?
> > I am assuming before trying
> anything I
> > would need to update the
> > server
> > to U8.
> >
> > Thanks in advance...
> >
> > --
> > Robert Loper
> > rlo...@gmail.com
> > <mailto:rlo...@gmail.com>
> >
> >
> >
> >
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