From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 30 04:08:46 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB99D4B2 for ; Tue, 30 Apr 2013 04:08:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from harrison@glsan.com) Received: from mail-ia0-x22f.google.com (mail-ia0-x22f.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c02::22f]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D9011836 for ; Tue, 30 Apr 2013 04:08:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ia0-f175.google.com with SMTP id i38so92310iae.34 for ; Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:08:45 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-gm-message-state; bh=SSnmJmftoDS2OgfZHDlR2eG26pTkB/SRncXrnqWo0hw=; b=VFPAOC1oVxZlYW0Uebgayn7IA9L+kRJZZAt7ha5eG97L++HAitCd/XB3LXNaxEraNZ IK3Bk+b1FLTXCFUF9BE0Bg1dL/EmJHry4OKjmzRP6dwo0+2/gB5JVBSHDC4PhZAIwJgd FI8X27iwf8t4KyJho/sPwXlreqtBzaK1zJo7CQHW68z5euN8VHLy9lCNVll+QXBf/J6D 32q9mV4BX0Eg1lNuLi6Q6ejP4FdbDIbvhHXraafylWNCWaPPnx8waRPxqQZ+Sx54/J5c CXWfVfi802vURrGyu9lCUzm3RhvaaLiVOJKXgsL66y2ibXm2KtLKGlNyUmoVWYs+MuFS 87/w== X-Received: by 10.42.90.72 with SMTP id j8mr23042038icm.34.1367294925845; Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:08:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.64] (99-100-184-80.lightspeed.mdsnwi.sbcglobal.net. [99.100.184.80]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id qn10sm20988109igc.6.2013.04.29.21.08.45 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:08:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <517F43CC.5070103@glsan.com> Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 23:08:44 -0500 From: Christopher Harrison User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130328 Thunderbird/17.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: clean up /dev/zvol/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmCLAgG3XQ5M3NpirGwuUkHzTiy/yLMBXG32iBfG5+O+hrmutLGpB1On1QGNVKoyaenFWBl X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 04:08:46 -0000 /dev/zvol does not appear to be cleaning up the device tree of zfs and zfs snapshots. After zfs snapshots of a zfs volume have been deleted the device remains in the device tree. My /dev/zvol grows very large, quickly on my system taking multiple snapshots a day of multiple volumes. Does anyone have any ideas to clean up the /dev/zvol device tree? Thanks in advance, -C