zfs mounts used size not always correctly reported

[daniejstriata]

I've notices that the reporting on zfs pools is not accurate. The used value for each is not correct as can be seen here:

|system/logs            |zfs |    |301Mi| 9% -----|3.1Gi| 3.4Gi|/var/log                   
|system/audit           |zfs |    |301Mi| 9% -----|3.1Gi| 3.4Gi|/var/log/audit             
|system/home            |zfs |    |170Mi| 5% -----|3.1Gi| 3.3Gi|/home                      

zfs list show the used as:

NAME                      USED  AVAIL     REFER  MOUNTPOINT
system/audit             25.2M  3.14G     25.2M  /var/log/audit
system/home               170M  3.14G      170M  /home
system/logs               301M  3.14G      301M  /var/log

It seems to catch the 301M for /var/log and apply it to /var/log/audit too.

[Canop]

Thanks for the report.

Any element of investigation would be valuable before I find the time to try reproduce this.

[daniejstriata]

@Canop Let me know if I can give you more information.

[Canop]

I don't know. I should 1) find time to dedicate to the question 2) familiarize myself with ZFS pools 3) reproduce the problem.

Unless you want to dive yourself into debugging lfs-core and see where the data are misinterpreted.

[daniejstriata]

Sorry. I'd love to help but I don't know rust.

Could it be that the logic where the mount-point is read the value gets overwritten by previous values?

|system/logs            |zfs |    |301Mi| 9% -----|3.1Gi| 3.4Gi|/var/log                   
|system/audit           |zfs |    |301Mi| 9% -----|3.1Gi| 3.4Gi|/var/log/audit    

only shared values that I see are that the one mount is ontop the other.

Here is the output from mount:

system/audit on /var/log/audit type zfs (rw,xattr,noacl)
system/logs on /var/log type zfs (rw,nodev,noexec,xattr,noacl)

[Canop]

I can't dive into this this week. I'll use your observations when work becomes a little more quiet.

[daniejstriata]

I found another scenario where dysk is not reporting correctly on ZFS. My suspicion that the mount point sharing a portion of the same path, causing a problem is therefore wrong.

Also the used size differs.

Dysk 2.8.0 -u SI

│system/auditd    │zfs │    │262K│ 0%      │2.6G│2.6G│/var/log/audit │
│system/ossec-logs│zfs │    │262K│ 0%      │2.6G│2.6G│/var/ossec/logs│

Dysk 2.8.0 -u binary

│system/auditd    │zfs │    │256Ki│ 0%      │2.4Gi│ 2.4Gi│/var/log/audit │
│system/ossec-logs│zfs │    │256Ki│ 0%      │2.4Gi│ 2.4Gi│/var/ossec/logs│

zfs list

NAME                USED  AVAIL     REFER  MOUNTPOINT
system/auditd       248K  2.38G      248K  /var/log/audit
system/ossec-logs   176K  2.38G      176K  /var/ossec/logs

[daniejstriata]

Could the crate libzetta be used to give better ZFS results? I'm suspecting btrfs will also give similar results to the current implementation. https://docs.rs/libzetta/latest/libzetta/

[daniejstriata]

Could pools not be printed like the following example:

┌───────────────────┬────┬────┬─────┬─────────┬─────┬──────┬───────────────┐
│   filesystem      │type│disk│used │   use   │free │ size │mount point    │
├───────────────────┼────┼────┼─────┼─────────┼─────┼──────┼───────────────┤
│/dev/nvme0n1p1     │xfs │SSD │3.3Gi│41% ██   │4.7Gi│ 7.9Gi│/              │
│system             │zfs │    │2.3Gi│54% ██▊  │1.4Gi│ 3.0Gi│*zpool*        │
│- system/home      │zfs │    │1.7Gi│54% ██▊  │1.4Gi│ 3.0Gi│/home          │
│- system/usr-share │zfs │    │357Mi│20% █    │1.4Gi│ 3.0Gi│/usr/share     │
│- system/logs      │zfs │    │ 75Mi│ 5% ▎    │1.4Gi│ 3.0Gi│/var/log       │
│- system/tmp       │zfs │    │ 72Mi│ 5% ▎    │1.4Gi│ 3.0Gi│/tmp           │
│- system/dnf-cache │zfs │    │ 51Mi│ 3% ▏    │1.4Gi│ 3.0Gi│/var/cache/dnf │
│- system/audit     │zfs │    │ 12Mi│ 1%      │1.4Gi│ 3.0Gi│/var/log/audit │
│- system/root      │zfs │    │9.1Mi│ 1%      │1.4Gi│ 3.0Gi│/root          │
│- system/ossec-logs│zfs │    │384Ki│ 0%      │1.4Gi│ 3.0Gi│/var/ossec/logs│
│/dev/nvme0n1p128   │vfat│SSD │1.4Mi│14% ▋    │8.6Mi│10.0Mi│/boot/efi      │
└───────────────────┴────┴────┴─────┴─────────┴─────┴──────┴───────────────┘

where:

→ zpool list
NAME     SIZE  ALLOC   FREE
system  3.75G  2.24G  1.51G

and

→ zfs list
NAME                USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
system             2.24G  1.39G    96K  /system
system/audit       12.3M  1.39G  12.3M  /var/log/audit
system/dnf-cache   51.4M  1.39G  51.4M  /var/cache/dnf/
system/home        1.66G  1.39G  1.65G  /home
system/logs        74.6M  1.39G  74.6M  /var/log
system/ossec-logs   280K  1.39G   280K  /var/ossec/logs
system/root        11.0M  1.39G  9.10M  /root
system/tmp         71.8M  1.39G  71.8M  /tmp
system/usr-share    357M  1.39G   357M  /usr/share/

provides the correct values?

An example of where dysk got it wrong:

┌────────────────────────────────┬────┬────┬─────┬─────────┬─────┬──────┬──────────────────────────┐
│         filesystem             │type│disk│used │   use   │free │ size │mount point               │
├────────────────────────────────┼────┼────┼─────┼─────────┼─────┼──────┼──────────────────────────┤
│wazuh/var-lib-wazuh-indexer     │zfs │    │189Gi│91% ████▌│ 18Gi│ 207Gi│/var/lib/wazuh-indexer    │
│wazuh/var-ossec                 │zfs │    │ 99Gi│85% ████▎│ 18Gi│ 117Gi│/var/ossec                │
│wazuh/usr-share-wazuh-index     │zfs │    │745Mi│ 4% ▎    │ 18Gi│  19Gi│/usr/share/wazuh-indexer  │
│wazuh/usr-share-wazuh-dash      │zfs │    │670Mi│ 3% ▏    │ 18Gi│  19Gi│/usr/share/wazuh-dashboard│

The total size should be the same for the 4 mounts. The free space is correct.