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Re:Is ZFS a suitable replacement for other Linux filesystems? by ryao on Friday October 10, 2014 @10:50AM (#8437986)
This issue was fixed in Illumos a few months ago, although the fix has not made its way to O3X yet:

https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commit/4bb7380495217...

The workaround is to find a file that was written that is outside of a snapshot and truncate it. `zfs diff` can be used to do that. That allows you to delete an old snapshot.

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Re:Is ZFS a suitable replacement for other Linux filesystems? by ryao on Friday October 10, 2014 @11:20AM (#8438159)
I ported this fix to ZoL and opened a pull request to get it merged into HEAD for the next release:

https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/pull/2784

O3X merges fixes from ZoL, so it should get this fix soon after it has been merged to ZoL.

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Re:Is ZFS a suitable replacement for other Linux filesystems? by po on Friday October 10, 2014 @11:32AM (#8438224)
That's great! Thanks for the info.

edit: Didn't realize you meant you just ported it over and submitted the PR just now. Double thanks!

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