On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 06:46:32AM -0700, Chris Murray wrote: > Nico, what is a zero-link file, and how would I go about finding > whether I have one? You'll have to bear with me, I'm afraid, as I'm > still building my Solaris knowledge at the minute - I was brought up > on Windows. I use Solaris for my storage needs now though, and slowly > improving on my knowledge so I can move away from Windows one day :)
I see that Mark S. thinks this may be a specific ZFS bug, and there's a followup with instructions on how to detect if that's the case. However, it can also be a zero-link file. I've certainly run into that problem before myself, on UFS and other filesystems. A zero-link file is a file that has been removed (unlink(2)ed), but which remains open in some process(es). Such a file continues to consume space until the processes that have it open are killed. Typically you'd use pfiles(1) or lsof to find such files. > If it makes any difference, the problem persists after a full reboot, Yeah, if you rebooted and there's no 14GB .nfs* files, then this is not a zero-link file. See the followups. Nico -- _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
