I have a bunch of VM's, and some samba shares, etc, on a pool. I created the VM's using zvol's, specifically so they would have an appropriate refreservation and never run out of disk space, even with snapshots. Today, I ran out of disk space, and all the VM's died. So obviously it didn't work.
When I used "zpool status" after the system crashed, I saw this: NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE EXPANDSZ CAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT storage 928G 568G 360G - 61% 1.00x ONLINE - I did some cleanup, so I could turn things back on ... Freed up about 4G. Now, when I use "zpool status" I see this: NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE EXPANDSZ CAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT storage 928G 564G 364G - 60% 1.00x ONLINE - When I use "zfs list storage" I see this: NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT storage 909G 4.01G 32.5K /storage So I guess the lesson is (a) refreservation and zvol alone aren't enough to ensure your VM's will stay up. and (b) if you want to know how much room is *actually* available, as in "usable," as in, "how much can I write before I run out of space," you should use "zfs list" and not "zpool status"
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