I just deleted a bunch of snapshots from 2015 and freed up 50GB of my 120GB disk. :)
automatically-created snapshots can get out of hand sometimes. :)
damn that would have really slowed your system down?
Yeah, it was starting to get a bit full, and a bit slow.
I was down to my last 15GB or so
I'm down to 2048 snapshots... about half of how many I had before.
that.... is way to many haha
automatically-created snapshots need automatic pruning ;) (i.e. I only keep 4 automated weekly snaps, the last 24 hours, the last 7 days etc)
And yeah having a ton of snaps can cause zfs(1) and processes that use it (like the snapshot-taking process ;p) to really, really, reallllllly drag on.
isn't there normally automatic pruning as well, it's just that ther'es hourly, daily, weekly, monthly etc
which all start adding up
automatic.... if you schedule something to do it
Built-in to ZFS? No there's nothing automatic.
nah built into scripts that auto snapshot
It's up to whatever you've scheduled/configured/script you're using etc
say https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs-auto-snapshot
And  yes that one does. Not all do though. :p
ahh
https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs-auto-snapshot/blob/master/src/zfs-auto-snapshot.sh#L65
eg: "were you lazy?" or "are you using FreeNAS?"
(last I checked, the auto-snapshotting script in FreeNAS has no "expiry")
or is it freebsd?
it's easy to have expiration and still have too many snaphots though
freebsd itself doesn't ship with a zfs-auto-snapshot script but there is such a package. (as I recall. don't have a system readily available to check)
but the packaged script, which is the same name as zfsonlinux's although it's written in a different language entirely, does have pruning/expiry too
k, cool
Hello from the other side
I am on my One Plus 3T
Nice. I've been considering that very model for my next phone. Happy so far, nathani ?
Kind of too early to tell,  but so far so good
Snapchat works so that's great - stopped working on my HTC one M8
yes, I was using zfs-auto-snapshot
except the "every other month" was set to something like "3 years" :)
I had forgotten that I needed to do some manual pruning. :)
Wow... I had thought my mail system was blowing, but now I realize it was my filesystem and all the file accesses.  Things are zippy again!
Next problem: upgrading from FreeBSD 9.3 (past EOL!) to 10.x.