Re: [zfs-discuss] snapshot size

2012-06-05 Thread Stefan Ring
> Can I say > >        USED-REFER=snapshot size ? No. "USED" is the space that would be freed if you destroyed the snapshot _right now_. This can change (and usually does) if you destroy previous snapshots. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@openso

Re: [zfs-discuss] snapshot size

2012-06-05 Thread Albert Shih
Le 05/06/2012 ? 17:08:51+0200, Stefan Ring a écrit > > Two questions from a newbie. > > > >        1/ What REFER mean in zfs list ? > > The amount of data that is reachable from the file system root. It's > just what I would call the contents of the file system. OK thanks. > > >        2/ How

Re: [zfs-discuss] snapshot size

2012-06-05 Thread Stefan Ring
> Two questions from a newbie. > >        1/ What REFER mean in zfs list ? The amount of data that is reachable from the file system root. It's just what I would call the contents of the file system. >        2/ How can I known the size of all snapshot size for a partition ? >        (OK I can ad

Re: [zfs-discuss] Snapshot size larger than expected

2008-01-23 Thread Matt Newcombe
OK, to answer my own question (with a little help from Eric!) ... I was using vi to edit the file which must be rewriting the entire file back out to disk - hence the larger than expected growth of the snapshot. Matt This message posted from opensolaris.org __

Re: [zfs-discuss] Snapshot size larger than expected

2008-01-23 Thread Eric Schrock
How are you editing the file? Are you sure your editor isn't writing out the entire file even though only four characters have changed? If you truss the app, do you see a single 4 byte write to the file? - Eric On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 11:11:38AM -0800, Matt Newcombe wrote: > Hi, > > We're curr

Re: [zfs-discuss] Snapshot size larger than expected

2008-01-23 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 11:11:38AM -0800, Matt Newcombe wrote: > Creating an empty zpool & zfs > Creating a 6MB text file > Taking a snapshot > > So far so good. The filesystem size is 6MB and the snapshot 0MB > > Now I edit the first 4 characters of the text file. I would have > expected the siz