I recently moved some data on a box with limited space. I decided I should limit the snapshots so that space would not become an issue. I just check back a week later to find out the box is hitting the borderline. Doing I quick check I realized that the snapshot_limit is not being respected.
# uname -a FreeBSD R1 11.0-STABLE FreeBSD 11.0-STABLE #17 r312232: Sun Jan 15 10:59:10 EST 2017 root@S1:/usr/src/11-STABLE/obj/usr/src/11-STABLE/src/sys/MYKERNEL amd64 # zfs create zroot/bhyve/test # zfs set snapshot_limit=0 zroot/bhyve/test # zfs snapshot zroot/bhyve/test@1 # zfs snapshot zroot/bhyve/test@2 # zfs snapshot zroot/bhyve/test@3 # zfs list -t snapshot | grep zroot/bhyve/test zroot/bhyve/test@1 0 - 88K - zroot/bhyve/test@2 0 - 88K - zroot/bhyve/test@3 0 - 88K - # zfs get all zroot/bhyve/test | grep snapshot zroot/bhyve/test usedbysnapshots 0 - zroot/bhyve/test snapshot_limit 0 local zroot/bhyve/test snapshot_count 3 local Also wanted to verify 0 was not being mistaken for none. # for snapshot in `zfs list -t snapshot | grep zroot/bhyve/test | awk '{print $1}'`; do zfs destroy $snapshot ; done # zfs get all zroot/bhyve/test | grep snapshot zroot/bhyve/test usedbysnapshots 0 - zroot/bhyve/test snapshot_limit 0 local zroot/bhyve/test snapshot_count 0 local # zfs set snapshot_limit=1 zroot/bhyve/test # zfs snapshot zroot/bhyve/test@1 # zfs snapshot zroot/bhyve/test@2 # zfs snapshot zroot/bhyve/test@3 # zfs get all zroot/bhyve/test | grep snapshot zroot/bhyve/test usedbysnapshots 0 - zroot/bhyve/test snapshot_limit 1 local zroot/bhyve/test snapshot_count 3 local Also tested on head FreeBSD S1 12.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT #26 r312388: Wed Jan 18 12:38:52 EST 2017 root@S1:/usr/src/head/obj/usr/src/head/src/sys/MYKERNEL-NODEBUG amd64 _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"