[OmniOS-discuss] background snapshot destruction impact

[George-Cristian Bîrzan]

On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Tobias Oetiker <tobi at oetiker.ch> wrote:

> a) would it be faster to send/receive the content of the
>    deduplicated filesystem to a new non deduplicated
>    and then destroy the entire filesystem (not the pool).
>
>
Destroying the entire dataset directly won't help, if anything, it'll just
prolong the agony. If you want a controlled 'deletion', you can zero the
current version of it (delete files individually and whatnot), then revert
to the previous snapshot, repeat until there are no snapshots.



> b) is there a way to monitor progress on the background
>    destruction?
>
>
zpool get freeing pool will list how much is left.

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George-Cristian Bîrzan
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