Re: [OpenZFS Developer] Can we make file deletion not fail on ENOSPC?

2014-03-19 Thread Rich
My understanding is incomplete, but I believe the problem is that it can take an unbounded amount of space to do a deletion atomically, so you can't just work around it by pre-allocating X amount of space... And then, the (related) "problem" is that, to free space in that case, you need to (most c

Re: [OpenZFS Developer] Can we make file deletion not fail on ENOSPC?

2014-03-19 Thread Saso Kiselkov
On 3/19/14, 11:58 PM, Xin Li wrote: > Hi, > > Craig have hit this today on one of our build system where rm gives > ENOSPC (No space left on device) and found an online article at > http://www.surlyjake.com/blog/2010/01/19/zfs-cant-rm-no-space-left-on-device/ > .. > > Will it be possible for us t

[OpenZFS Developer] Can we make file deletion not fail on ENOSPC?

2014-03-19 Thread Xin Li
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, Craig have hit this today on one of our build system where rm gives ENOSPC (No space left on device) and found an online article at http://www.surlyjake.com/blog/2010/01/19/zfs-cant-rm-no-space-left-on-device/ .. Will it be possible for us to r