Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: zfs list and snapshots..

2007-01-04 Thread Matthew Ahrens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Common case to me is, how much would be freed by deleting the snapshots in order of age from oldest to newest always starting with the oldest. That would be possible. A given snapshot's "space used by this and all prior snapshots" would be the prev snap's "used+prior"

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: zfs list and snapshots..

2007-01-04 Thread Wade . Stuart
Matthew, I really do appreciate this discussion, thank you for taking the time to go over this with me. Matthew Ahrens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/04/2007 01:49:00 PM: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [9:40am] [/data/test]:test% zfs snapshot data/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [9:41am] [/data/

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: zfs list and snapshots..

2007-01-04 Thread Matthew Ahrens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [9:40am] [/data/test]:test% zfs snapshot data/[EMAIL PROTECTED] [9:41am] [/data/test]:test% zfs snapshot data/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ... [9:42am] [/data/test/images/fullres]:test% zfs list NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT data/test 13.4G

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: zfs list and snapshots..

2007-01-04 Thread Matthew Ahrens
Darren Dunham wrote: Is the problem of displaying the potential space freed by multiple destructions one of calculation (do you have to walk snapshot trees?) or one of formatting and display? Both, because you need to know for each snapshot, how much of the data it references was first referen

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: zfs list and snapshots..

2007-01-04 Thread Wade . Stuart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/03/2007 04:21:00 PM: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > which is not the behavior I am seeing.. > > Show me the output, and I can try to explain what you are seeing. [9:36am] [~]:test% zfs create data/test [9:36am] [~]:test% zfs set compression=on data/test [9:37am]

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: zfs list and snapshots..

2007-01-03 Thread Darren Dunham
> AFAIK, the manpage is accurate. The space "used" by a snapshot is exactly > the amount of space that will be freed up when you run 'zfs destroy > '. Once that operation completes, 'zfs list' will show that the > space "used" by adjacent snapshots has changed as a result. > > Unfortunately,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: zfs list and snapshots..

2007-01-03 Thread Matthew Ahrens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: which is not the behavior I am seeing.. Show me the output, and I can try to explain what you are seeing. AFAIK, the manpage is accurate. The space "used" by a snapshot is exactly the amount of space that will be freed up when you run 'zfs destroy '. Once that ope

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: zfs list and snapshots..

2007-01-02 Thread Wade . Stuart
Sorry a few corrections, and inserts.. > > which is not the behavior I am seeing.. If I have 100 snaps of a > filesystem that are relatively low delta churn and then delete half of the > data out there I would expect to see that space go up in the used column > for one of the snaps (in my test

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: zfs list and snapshots..

2007-01-02 Thread Wade . Stuart
I am bringing this up again with the hopes that more eye may be on the list now then before the holidays.. the zfs man page lists the usage column as: used The amount of space consumed by this dataset and all its descendants. This is the value that is checked against

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: zfs list and snapshots..

2006-12-22 Thread Wade . Stuart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 12/22/2006 04:50:25 AM: > Hello Wade, > > Thursday, December 21, 2006, 10:15:56 PM, you wrote: > > > > > > WSfc> Hola folks, > > WSfc> I am new to the list, please redirect me if I am posting > to the wrong > WSfc> location. I am starting to use ZFS in produc

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: zfs list and snapshots..

2006-12-22 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Wade, Thursday, December 21, 2006, 10:15:56 PM, you wrote: WSfc> Hola folks, WSfc> I am new to the list, please redirect me if I am posting to the wrong WSfc> location. I am starting to use ZFS in production (Solaris x86 10U3 -- WSfc> 11/06) and I seem to be seeing unexpected b