On Jul 24, 2010, at 2:20 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:

> I remember asking about this a long time ago, and everybody seemed to think 
> it was a non-issue.  The vague and unclearly reported rumor that ZFS behaves 
> poorly when it's 100% full.  Well now I have one really solid data point to 
> confirm it.  And possibly how to reproduce it, avoid it, and prevent it.

I am given to understand that you can delete snapshots in current builds (I 
don't have anything recent where I can test).

>  
> I'm looking to see if anyone else has similar or related issues.  Of 
> particular value, if you have any test machine to attempt reproducing the 
> problem, that could be very valuable.
<snip> 

>  
> 
> Before there is a problem, create a new zfs filesystem, with a space 
> reservation.
> zfs create -o reservation=1G tank/reservation

Yes, this works. You don't need much space to recover what I do is drop the 
reservation down about 10% from the original size and proceed to free up space. 
I don't remove the reservation entirely because I use a small reservation 
(100M) and I don't want to be caught out if something is trying to write and I 
missed it.

Shawn

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