Re: ZFS missing space

From: Paul Procacci <pprocacci_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 14:03:34 UTC
On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 6:06 AM Frank Leonhardt <freebsd-doc@fjl.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On 12/02/2025 10:55, Frank Leonhardt wrote:
> > I've noticed space "go missing" on ZFS before, but not conclusively.
> > This time it's happened on a brand new setup I'm doing some testing on.
> >
> > This is a clean install of 14.2. The machine rebooted (not sure why)
> > while a large dataset was being received (zfs receive...). The dataset
> > isn't there.
> >
> > There should be about 6Tb in the pool (depending on how you count a Tb).
> >
> > This is what I'm seeing as varying estimates of free space:
> >
> > root@zfs2:/home/fjl # zfs list -t all
> > NAME              USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
> > zr               30.6G  5.12T   140K  /zr
> > zr/ROOT          5.12G  5.12T   140K  none
> > zr/ROOT/default  5.12G  5.12T  5.12G  /
> > zr/data           140K  5.12T   140K  /data
> > zr/francis       23.3G  5.12T  23.3G  /zr/francis
> > zr/home           343K  5.12T   140K  /home
> > zr/home/fjl       203K  5.12T   203K  /home/fjl
> > zr/tmp            140K  5.12T   140K  /tmp
> > zr/usr           2.19G  5.12T   140K  /usr
> > zr/usr/ports     1.16G  5.12T  1.16G  /usr/ports
> > zr/usr/src       1.03G  5.12T  1.03G  /usr/src
> > zr/var           1.11M  5.12T   140K  /var
> > zr/var/audit      140K  5.12T   140K  /var/audit
> > zr/var/crash      140K  5.12T   140K  /var/crash
> > zr/var/log        401K  5.12T   401K  /var/log
> > zr/var/mail       180K  5.12T   180K  /var/mail
> > zr/var/tmp        140K  5.12T   140K  /var/tmp
> > root@zfs2:/home/fjl # zpool iostat
> >               capacity     operations     bandwidth
> > pool        alloc   free   read  write   read  write
> > ----------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----
> > zr          42.8G  7.22T      7      8   417K  1.16M
> >
> > As this is a "clean" system I can't figure out where the discrepancy
> > could possibly be coming from. This is beyond the slop value.
> >
> > Any ideas anyone?
> >
> > (Incidentally, I'm testing failure modes using some flaky hard drives
> > I acquired on eBay - no errors logged prior to reboot).
> >
> > Thanks, Frank.
>
>
> Further: Before the system rebooted itself I had IOstat running:
>
>                capacity     operations     bandwidth
> pool        alloc   free   read  write   read  write
> ----------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----
> zr          2.13T  5.14T      0    980      0   142M
>    raidz1-0  2.13T  5.14T      0    980      0   142M
>      da0p3       -      -      0    254      0  35.3M
>      da1p3       -      -      0    351      0  35.6M
>      da2p3       -      -      0     80      0  35.5M
>      da3p3       -      -      0    293      0  35.6M
> ----------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----
>
> As you can see it has 2.13T allocated, which is what I'd have expected a
> few hours into the receive. After the reboot this 2.13Tb allocated has
> disappeared, but not been added back to the free pool!
>
>
>

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