Hello none, Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 8:38:03 PM, you wrote:
n> Hi Sanjeev and Milek, thanks for your replies but I'm afraid they are somewhat missing the point. n> I have a situation (and I believe it would be fairly common) where n> early snapshots would be sharing most data with the current n> filesystem and more recent snapshots are holding onto data that has n> been deleted from the current filesystem (after a recent big deletion of unused data). n> It is impossible to see what snapshots would need to be deleted to n> free up the space that was deleted from the current fs, without n> deleting the snapshots one by one. I think in any filesystem it is n> reasonable to expect to be able to determine what entities use up n> disk space. But ZFS is currently lacking this for snapshots. n> See the below "USED" column. The total "USED" adds up to about n> 11G. However the total data consumed by the snapshots is more in n> the range of 100G. But from the listing below it is simply n> impossible to see which snapshots are using it. In most cases you probably want to destroy an oldest snapshot. Then check if you happy with your free space, if not delete a next one and so on. The problem is how to present the information you are asking for, like - how much space will I regain if I delete snapshot #2 #4 #7.... -- Best regards, Robert Milkowski mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://milek.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
