[RFC] Q&A propose to add into FAQ

[Eitan Adler]

On 19 December 2012 11:24, Alexander Yerenkow <yerenkow at gmail.com> wrote:
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How is this?
commit 718eb1816af2871981f338ed509fced6b4c570fb
Author: Eitan Adler <lists at eitanadler.com>
Date:   Wed Dec 19 09:26:56 2012 -0500

    Answer the question "I can not delete or or create files on my ZFS pool.
    How can I fix this?"

    Submitted by:	Alexander Yerenkow <yerenkow at gmail.com>
    Reviewed by:	-doc
    Approved by:	??? (mentor)

diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
index 7410446..999a5a9 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
@@ -4464,6 +4464,26 @@ C:\="DOS"</programlisting>
 	      slower.</para>
 	  </answer>
 	</qandaentry>
+
+	<qandaentry>
+	  <question id="zpool-fully-full">
+	    <para>I can not delete or create files on my ZFS pool.
+	      How can I fix this?</para>
+	  </question>
+
+	  <answer>
+	    <para>This could happen because the pool is 100% full.
+	      ZFS requires space on the disk in order to write
+	      transaction meta data.   In order to restore the pool
+	      to a usable state, truncate a file you want to
+	      delete.</para>
+
+	    <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>truncate -s 0
<replaceable>unimportant-file</replaceable></userinput></screen>
+
+	    <para>File truncation works because a new transaction is
+	      not started, new spare blocks are created instead.</para>
+	  </answer>
+	</qandaentry>
       </qandaset>
     </sect1>
   </chapter>

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Eitan Adler