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Date:      Fri, 1 Oct 2010 00:25:40 -0400
From:      Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org>
To:        Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Strange ZFS problem, filesystem claims to be full when clearly not full
Message-ID:  <20101001042540.GA48601@in-addr.com>
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On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 04:34:06PM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> Quoting Torbjorn Kristoffersen <torbjoern@gmail.com> (from Thu, 30 Sep  
> 2010 15:28:25 +0200):
> 
> >That could very well be.  Interestingly, dtrace is not installed and
> >doesn't even load.  When I do
> >kldload dtraceall it says:
> >
> >    kldload: can't load dtraceall: Exec format error
> >
> >??Perhaps I should recompile the kernel on this server, and build in
> >Dtrace into the kernel.  Perhaps I should first update to
> >FreeBSD-STABLE, as it is more cutting edge?
> >
> >Actually, I'll first do a complete backup of this jail, remove the zfs
> >filesystem, then re-create it, put the files back, and see what
> >happens.  The unfortunate thing is that I will be ruining a chance to
> >find out what really happened.
> 
> I would give lsof a try first. Installing it from ports or packages is  
> not as much time consuming as updating the server, and may pinpoint  
> the problem.
> 
> Bye,
> Alexander.

It might be worth running

ktrace -C

as root.  I do not believe ktrace output files show up in lsof or fstat.
It seems at least theoretically possible that a ktrace output file has
been deleted so it no longer shows up in ls/du but the trace is ongoing.

Regards,

Gary



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