[OmniOS-discuss] ZFS snapshot overhead

Peter Tribble peter.tribble at gmail.com
Thu May 12 11:01:46 UTC 2016


Does anyone know what the overhead of a zfs snapshot is?

I'm not talking about the data, I'm talking about whatever space
zfs needs to allocate internally for housekeeping.

A quick estimate indicates something around 2M of overhead.

(I've just deleted ~35k snapshots on a system, each taking no space.
I was a little surprised - although pleased - to get ~70G of space back
in the pool.)

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-Peter Tribble
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