Inconsistency between space used by ZFS snapshots reported by zfs list
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Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2024 21:05:06 UTC
Many times it happened to me that I was looking for where the used space in the pool were allocated and I couldn't get the right result. Listing "zfs list -o space" lists info that snapshots are taking up the most space, but when I list the snapshots for a given filesystem (zfs list -r -t snapshot), the sum of the occupied space does not match previously reported used size. # zfs list -o space ssdtank1/vol1/db/postgres NAME AVAIL USED USEDSNAP USEDDS USEDREFRESERV USEDCHILD ank1/vol1/db/postgres 21.8G 169G 102G 67.0G 0B 0B # zfs list -H -p -r -t snapshot tank1/vol1/db/postgres | awk 'BEGIN { used=0 } { used=used+$2 } END { print used/1024/1024/1024"GB" }' 41.9309GB USEDSNAP from zfs list -o space: 102 G sum of snapshots sizes: 41.9309 GB Why it doesn't match? What is the real space used by snapshots? zfs list -o space or the sum of snapshots sizes listed by zfs list -r -t snapshot? The machine is FreeBSD 13.3-p4 amd64. Kind regards Miroslav Lachman