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tenspd137
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 8:48 pm    Post subject: Yet another ZFS question about disk space sizes Reply with quote

Hi all,

I am copying my root directory to a ZFS pool. One thing I have noticed while rsyncing is that the Size column in df -h dereases for all but one of my data sets, even though they are all in the same pool, for example, df -h shows:

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/dev/root               454G  278G  153G  65% /
devtmpfs                7.8G     0  7.8G   0% /dev
tmpfs                   7.8G  968K  7.8G   1% /run
shm                     7.8G     0  7.8G   0% /dev/shm
cgroup_root              10M     0   10M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda2               485M   38M  422M   9% /boot
/dev/sda1              1022M  6.3M 1016M   1% /boot/efi
rpool/ROOT/gentoo       255G   37M  255G   1% /mnt/gentoo
rpool/HOME              255G  128K  255G   1% /mnt/gentoo/home
rpool/HOME/root         255G  128K  255G   1% /mnt/gentoo/root
rpool/HOME/dayd         457G  202G  255G  45% /mnt/gentoo/home/dayd
rpool/GENTOO/portage    255G  128K  255G   1% /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage
rpool/GENTOO/distfiles  255G  128K  255G   1% /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage/distfiles
rpool/GENTOO/packages   255G  128K  255G   1% /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage/packages
rpool/GENTOO/ccache     255G  128K  255G   1% /mnt/gentoo/var/tmp/ccache


After some rsynching
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Filesystem              Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root               454G  278G  153G  65% /
devtmpfs                7.8G     0  7.8G   0% /dev
tmpfs                   7.8G  968K  7.8G   1% /run
shm                     7.8G     0  7.8G   0% /dev/shm
cgroup_root              10M     0   10M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda2               485M   38M  422M   9% /boot
/dev/sda1              1022M  6.3M 1016M   1% /boot/efi
rpool/ROOT/gentoo       253G   37M  253G   1% /mnt/gentoo
rpool/HOME              253G  128K  253G   1% /mnt/gentoo/home
rpool/HOME/root         253G  128K  253G   1% /mnt/gentoo/root
rpool/HOME/dayd         457G  205G  253G  45% /mnt/gentoo/home/dayd
rpool/GENTOO/portage    253G  128K  253G   1% /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage
rpool/GENTOO/distfiles  253G  128K  253G   1% /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage/distfiles
rpool/GENTOO/packages   253G  128K  253G   1% /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage/packages
rpool/GENTOO/ccache     253G  128K  253G   1% /mnt/gentoo/var/tmp/ccache


I would think that the Size in the left column would remain constant, the used would differ, and then Avail would just be Size-sum(used). Maybe I am just missing something about how ZFS reports disk space? Only one (rpool/HOME/dayd) seems to behave somewhat like I would expect.

Thanks for any insights anyone can shed.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 11:08 pm    Post subject: ZFS is tricky Reply with quote

Snapshots, deduplication, compression ?

https://blogs.oracle.com/observatory/entry/understanding_the_space_used_by has more information.
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