ZFS can't delete files when over quota

[Steven Hartland]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Garrett Cooper" <yanegomi at gmail.com>
>> Except this is not about being unable to rm because of EDQUOT (whether
>> ZFS can do something about that or not I have no idea). This is about being
>> able to remove just after truncation, which clearly shows that zfs can in
>> principle remove this file on its own.
>>
> 
>    You're probably right. My guess is that the fix would be to ignore
> EDQUOT in the unlink VOP handler.

The CoW nature of ZFS causes this issue, which is why UFS doesn't have this
problem. Unfortunately given ZFS's snapshots there's no guarantee that
truncating the file will result in enough free space to perform the unlink.

     Regards
     Steve

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