ZFS snapshot - rollback problem

[David Christensen]

On 2020-09-11 02:31, Ludovit Koren wrote:

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> On Friday, September 11, 2020, David Christensen ... wrote:

>> On 2020-09-10 23:31, Ludovit Koren wrote:

>>> On Friday, September 11, 2020, David Christensen ... wrote:

>>>> On 2020-09-10 07:18, Ludovit Koren wrote:

>>>>> ~>uname -a
>>>>> FreeBSD XxX 11.3-STABLE FreeBSD 11.3-STABLE #1 r354607: Mon Nov 11
>>>>> 12:19:28 CET 2019     root at jedi:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/HP  amd64


>> Did you partition the disk by hand, use the FreeBSD installer, or
>> something else?

>   If I remember correctly, using installer

I find it is better, faster, and cheaper to keep records.  A networked 
version control system is ideal for this.


>> mount
>>> zroot on / (zfs, local, nfsv4acls)
>>> devfs on /dev (devfs, local, multilabel)
>>> fdescfs on /dev/fd (fdescfs)
>>> procfs on /proc (procfs, local)
>>> linprocfs on /compat/linux/proc (linprocfs, local)
>>> zroot/usr on /usr (zfs, local, nfsv4acls)
>>> zroot/usr/home on /usr/home (zfs, local, nfsv4acls)
>>> zroot/var on /var (zfs, local, nfsv4acls)
>>> tmpfs on /var (tmpfs, local)
>>> map -hosts on /net (autofs)
>>> map -media on /media (autofs)
>>> tmpfs on /tmp (tmpfs, local)


>> zpool status
>>>     pool: zroot
>>>    state: ONLINE
>>> status: Some supported features are not enabled on the pool. The pool can
>>>           still be used, but some features are unavailable.
>>> action: Enable all features using 'zpool upgrade'. Once this is done,
>>>           the pool may no longer be accessible by software that does not
>>> support
>>>           the features. See zpool-features(7) for details.
>>>     scan: resilvered 0 in 0 days 00:00:00 with 0 errors on Sat Apr  6
>>> 20:39:05 2019
>>> config:
>>>
>>>           NAME         STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
>>>           zroot        ONLINE       0     0     0
>>>             gpt/disk0  ONLINE       0     0     0
>>>
>>> errors: No known data errors


> zfs rollback zroot/swapdisk0 at 200909
> cannot rollback ´zroot/swapdisk0': out of space

I believe I have seen that error message before, but have no record of 
it and forget the details.


STFW I am unable to find any good hits.


The developer approach would be to install source and grep(1) for it.


> zfs rollback zroot at 200909
> 
> nothing happens, even if I wait several hours, or it hangs, respectivelly

If the process is stuck in an infinite loop, top(1) will show it 
(consider the '-m' option and/or 'm' hotkey):

# top -S -s 10


The zpool(8) 'iostat' subcommand is useful for watching ZFS I/O:

# zpool iostat -v 10


There are many other userland tools for monitoring aspects of the system 
and/or processes; I need to learn more of them.


Given that you are using STABLE, you should probably seek support per 
handbook section 23.4.2.


If it were my computer, I would backup, wipe, install, and migrate to 
12.1-STABLE.


David