On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Chris Paul <chris.p...@rexconsulting.net>wrote:

> OK I have a very large zfs snapshot I want to destroy. When I do this, the
> system nearly freezes during the zfs destroy. This is a Sun Fire X4600 with
> 128GB of memory. Now this may be more of a function of the IO device, but
> let's say I don't care that this zfs destroy finishes quickly. I actually
> don't care, as long as it finishes before I run out of disk space.
>

Destroys are very slow with dedup enabled, and worse with larger data sets
when the dedupe table doesn't fit into RAM. Adding a l2arc may help if
that's the case.

-B

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Brandon High : bh...@freaks.com
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