Volume has snapshot spill but no snapshots
Applies to
Issue
Snapshot spill occupies a half of the volume, but no snapshot is seen for the volume.Volume : vol_esxi
Feature Used Used%
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User Data 2.00TB 49%
Filesystem Metadata 1.65GB 0%
Inodes 28.0KB 0%
Snapshot Spill 1.86TB 46%
Total 3.92TB 96%
Total Physical Used 3.18TB 78%
Logical Used 3.92TB 96%
Logical Available 160GB 4%
In EMS logs we see the loop of creating a snapshot and auto deleting it due to low free space in the volume
[wafl_exempt05: wafl.vol.snap_create.done:info]: params: {'vol': 'vol_name', 'app': '', 'volident': '@ ', 'run_time': '530979', 'owner': '', 'type': 'Volume'}
[snap_helper: wafl.volume.snap.autoDelete:info]: Deleting Snapshot copy 'hourly.2021-09-15_1705' in volume 'vol_name@ ' to recover storage.
[wafl_spcd_main: monitor.volume.nearlyFull:error]: Volume vol_name@ is nearly full (using or reserving 97%% of space and 0%% of inodes).
[wafl_spcd_main: monitor.volume.full:debug]: Volume vol_name@ is full (using or reserving 98% of space and 0% of inodes).
[snap_helper: wafl.volume.snap.autoDelete:info]: Deleting Snapshot copy 'hourly.2021-09-15_1805' in volume 'vol_name@ ' to recover storage.