[OpenIndiana-discuss] What to do when zfs destroy -f or -R or both doesn't destroy

[Geoff Nordli]

On 2017-03-25 05:17 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Cleaning out a machine I'm about to bring down and reinstall hipster
> in place of 151_9 that has been running there.
>
> I found one stubborn snapshot that zfs destroy just will not remove.
>
> Tried -f flag -r and -R flags
>
> The zfs message says the snapshot is busy.
>
> I could not find any evidence of it actually being busy and finally
> rebooted just incase something was running I could not find.
> On reboot I hit an important service failure that dropped me into a
> console shell.
>
> That error (although that is not what I'm asking about in this post
> .. but will be, in a separate post)
>
> Paraphrased  and shortened error message
> svc:/system/filesystem/local:default failed with exit status 95
> And it was put into mainenance status
>
> Ok now back to the troublesome snapshot: In the console shell again
> zfs destroy just plain will not remove this snapshot and hence the fs
> itself. zfs message
> ontinues to say the snapshot is busy.
>
> Surely there is someway to get this thing destroyed?  Even if it
> actually is busy.. but I doubt that is the case.
>
>


Do you have any holds on the zfs snapshot.

zfs holds snapshot_name.

Geoff