Re: [zfs-discuss] Clearing space nearly full zpool

2010-11-01 Thread Richard Elling
On Oct 30, 2010, at 12:25 PM, Cuyler Dingwell wrote: It would have been nice if performance didn't take a nose dive when nearing (and not even at) capacity. In my case I would have preferred if the necessary space was reserved and I got a space issue before degrading to the point of

Re: [zfs-discuss] Clearing space nearly full zpool

2010-10-30 Thread Cuyler Dingwell
It wasn't a completely full volume so I wasn't getting the classic 'no space' issue. What I did end up doing was booting OpenIndiana (build 147) which seemed tohave more succes clearing up the space. I also set up some scripts to clear out space slower. Deleting a 4GB file would take 1-2

Re: [zfs-discuss] Clearing space nearly full zpool

2010-10-27 Thread Brandon High
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 2:46 AM, Cuyler Dingwell cuy...@gmail.com wrote: I have a zpool that once it hit 96% full the performance degraded horribly.   So, in order to get things better I'm trying to clear out some space.  The problem I have is after I've deleted a directory it no longer shows

Re: [zfs-discuss] Clearing space nearly full zpool

2010-10-26 Thread Tuomas Leikola
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Cuyler Dingwell cuy...@gmail.com wrote: It's not just this directory in the example - it's any directory or file.   The system was running fine up until it hit 96%.  Also, a full scrub of the file system was done (took nearly two days). -- I'm just stabbing

Re: [zfs-discuss] Clearing space nearly full zpool

2010-10-26 Thread Cuyler Dingwell
No datasets in the pool. As another data point I've been slowing trying to clear things out but eventually the IO operations hang. Pool Free Dir UsedFile Used File ... 189,238,526 44,771,026 102,413 FileName.part103.rar 189,238,526 44,668,613

[zfs-discuss] Clearing space nearly full zpool

2010-10-25 Thread Cuyler Dingwell
I have a zpool that once it hit 96% full the performance degraded horribly. So, in order to get things better I'm trying to clear out some space. The problem I have is after I've deleted a directory it no longer shows on the filesystem level (ls) but the free space isn't cleared up. After a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Clearing space nearly full zpool

2010-10-25 Thread Cuyler Dingwell
Oh, a few items to highlight. There are no snapshots - never have been on this volume. It's not just this directory in the example - it's any directory or file. The system was running fine up until it hit 96%. Also, a full scrub of the file system was done (took nearly two days). -- This