From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 21 18:06:04 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A2A81065675; Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:06:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mister.olli@googlemail.com) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.158]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 876EB8FC08; Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:06:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mister.olli@googlemail.com) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id e12so414443fga.12 for ; Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:06:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:subject:from:reply-to:to:cc :in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version :x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; bh=L8Ovnieyg+D/BnLnqTipN5BF9UwWfWYy9fb1f6cTv1w=; b=BIskiPD8oh+2mVO8SpB+3PfgZUYVKHKZPoG20tDwolVGdVzgDMZKhd4J8wvtMowjov vu+B743gehf7xyPm8+BAZ9UTW5pLA5sOcWosyOUyGaoMr/sVX5WAuHyAioI8+yKXe+j+ f8XMNo5Iu4m5574K6dxipHfZy/R6MxcKbGqQ4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=subject:from:reply-to:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type :date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; b=HtFqeI8KcyTHoJvVkpHmQ+IV/iy0Ca1o/k13FqTToQ7UpE/qt6fagxOqw5r904gIhP c9sMHgTIyFERmBDZucEfaCBuaYKLOUj/t8L5cGcrNMxqoz/tdy2dKVSAqvwdI3FCM/ug l/OfF+Wz1BrBpMquD3AsokBjf1OjM5XcBOIrw= Received: by 10.86.49.16 with SMTP id w16mr5549952fgw.67.1245607562559; Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:06:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?10.30.1.211? (vpn-or.studi-planet.com [78.47.172.52]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d6sm7119849fga.19.2009.06.21.11.06.01 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:06:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Mister Olli To: Kip Macy In-Reply-To: <3c1674c90906201736o335b4a3dv862139dc55f2211f@mail.gmail.com> References: <1245519413.26909.60.camel@phoenix.blechhirn.net> <3c1674c90906201050w15e4cd5dpae76cd70d64b4e92@mail.gmail.com> <1245525965.26909.69.camel@phoenix.blechhirn.net> <3c1674c90906201232x63ddee19yf91aeac30f3401bb@mail.gmail.com> <1245527381.26909.82.camel@phoenix.blechhirn.net> <3c1674c90906201736o335b4a3dv862139dc55f2211f@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:05:50 +0200 Message-Id: <1245607551.4757.18.camel@phoenix.blechhirn.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.5 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to delete files on ZFS volume X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: mister.olli@googlemail.com List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:06:04 -0000 hi, On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 17:36 -0700, Kip Macy wrote: > > [snip] > > The closest I can come to defining it would be "fluctuation of > contents". By this I was asking if you repeatedly created and deleted > files. ok, I understand now. There's actually no real fluctuation, since I only add content, but do not delete anything. > I didn't think it would be this easy to provoke this. I've tried > provoking this with a handful of large files without success. I'm > guessing that ZFS isn't as careful about bounding metadata creation as > it is data creation. > > My focus is, and for the foreseeable future will be, fixing FreeBSD > integration issues. As this is a fundamental ZFS space management > issue I don't foresee fixing it any time soon if at all unless it is > addressed by upgrading to v15 or v16. Is that possible already? From my understanding 8-CURRENT creates pools with version13 atm. > I hope that truncating some of the files will free up space for deletion. would be nice to test that, but I just recognized that my xen play machine is down due to power supply problems. Since I don't have the time to fix that, regard this problem as 'unimorrtant' ;-)) Anyway I will give you feedback, when I managed to repair it. Regards, --- Mr. Olli