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 on the 
> filesystem level (ls) but the free space isn't cleared up.  After a reboot, 
> the directory is back.

In order to free up some space, try cat'ing /dev/null over some files
you plan on deleting. It should free up some space to allow metadata
updates for the actual deletes to go through.

-B

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Brandon High : bh...@freaks.com
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