Hello,

I'm trying to track down a problem with taking zfs snapshots. On
occasion the zfs command will report:

cannot snapshot '<dataset name>': dataset is busy

The problem is, I don't know what causes zfs to think the data set is
"busy". Anyone out there know what constitutes a busy dataset?

I did some testing and it seems that mounting, nfs sharing and writing
to the dataset don't seem to affect its "busy" status. That is, I can
take a snapshot of a dataset that is mounted, in use by nfs, and being
written continuously. This leaves me a little puzzled at the definition
of "busy". 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Reid Spencer
illumita.com
 
 
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