[RFC] Q&A propose to add into FAQ

[Alexander Yerenkow]

2012/12/22 Eitan Adler <lists at eitanadler.com>

> On 19 December 2012 11:24, Alexander Yerenkow <yerenkow at gmail.com> wrote:
> ...
>
>
> How is this?
>

This is great :)


> 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>
>
> --
> Eitan Adler
>



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Regards,
Alexander Yerenkow