Yes i will ...

But this can be a good time to initiate/justify that useful backup which we never had time to do before :) .

F.

Geoff Shipman wrote:
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...

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Robert Loper
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