Right it would get rid of the CR, but does it free the disk space from an event that occurred prior to patching ?.
On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 10:51, Francois Napoleoni wrote: > From my experience with customer hitting this bug, installing the now > obsolete IDR and rebooting was enoug hto get ride of these sparse file > bug. > > F. > > Geoff Shipman wrote: > > The Solaris 10 Update 8 has the fix for 6792701 included. This is > part > > of kernel patches 141444-09 (sparc), 141445-09 (x86). For > OpenSolaris > > build 118 or later contains the fix so in the development builds. > > > > This avoids future problems with the CR but if your currently > effected > > by the problem the fix doesn't clear the troubles. > > > > I believe a backup of the data, then destroy of the file system, > then > > recreating it and restoring is method to clear the space. With the > > later kernel the problem is avoided in the future. > > > > Geoff > > > > > > On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 10:14, Francois Napoleoni wrote: > >> If you have a valid Solaris Support contract you can ask for the > >> corresponding IDR to fix this issue. > >> > >> (Hi to Richard E. ... who must be boiling right now :) ) > >> > >> F. > >> > >> Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > >>> I don?t know the answer to your question, but I am running the > same > >>> version of OS you are, and this bug could affect us. Do you have > >> any > >>> link to any documentation about this bug? I?d like to forward > >> something > >>> to inform the other admins at work. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> *From:* zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org > >>> [mailto:zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] *On Behalf Of *Robert > >> Loper > >>> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 02, 2010 12:09 PM > >>> *To:* zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > >>> *Subject:* [zfs-discuss] Any way to fix ZFS "sparse file bug" > >> #6792701 > >>> > >>> > >>> I have a Solaris x86 server running update 6 (Solaris 10 10/08 > >>> s10x_u6wos_07b X86). I recently hit this "sparse file bug" when I > >>> deleted a 512GB sparse file from a 1.2TB filesystem and the space > >> was > >>> never freed up. What I am asking is would there be any way to > >> recover > >>> the space in the filesystem without having to destroy and recreate > >> it? > >>> I am assuming before trying anything I would need to update the > >> server > >>> to U8. > >>> > >>> Thanks in advance... > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Robert Loper > >>> rlo...@gmail.com <mailto:rlo...@gmail.com> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> zfs-discuss mailing list > >>> zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > >>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > >> -- > >> Francois Napoleoni / Sun Support Engineer > >> mail : francois.napole...@sun.com > >> phone : +33 (0)1 3403 1707 > >> fax : +33 (0)1 3403 1114 > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> zfs-discuss mailing list > >> zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > > -- > Francois Napoleoni / Sun Support Engineer > mail : francois.napole...@sun.com > phone : +33 (0)1 3403 1707 > fax : +33 (0)1 3403 1114 -- Geoff Shipman - (303) 223-6266 Systems Technology Service Center - Operating System Solaris and Network Technology Domain Americas Systems Technology Service Center _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
