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solaris 11 space usage on zfs file system with snapshots

edited May 27, 2020 5:13AM in Oracle Solaris ZFS File System (MOSC) 3 commentsAnswered

Hello,

We are running into an odd situation on one of our data storage servers running Solaris 11.4.4.4.0.   After deleting  a 80GB of data files from a zfs file system some of that space is still being used by the file system but we can't determine why.

The system is setup with a zfs replication script to create hourly recursive snapshots of a parent filesystem (using zfs snapshot -r "$new_snap", with new_snap equal to a snapshot of the filesystem we want to remotely replicate), and after executing a remote zfs send of the incremental comparison between the previous hours snapshot to a backup server, the script recursively destroys the previous hours snapshot of the filesystem.  What we expected to happen (and I believe what we've seen in the past) is that the next run of the replication script after the 80GB file was deleted, and the snapshot

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