Nexenta Auto-Sync Limit

When trying to set up a new Auto-Sync service I was encountering an error telling me that there was not enough space to replicate the LUN, despite there being 50% free space on the device.

After looking at the free space, it appears that each folder on a Nexenta device has a hard size limit of 5TB.

I created a new folder and attempted to recreate the auto-sync and the service created and ran successfully.

To view the current space used in a folder follow the instructions below;

1. SSH as ADMIN onto the device you are replicating to.
2. SU to root permissions, but don't enter nmc. Your path should read something like root@devicename:/export/home/admin#
3. Run the command;

zfs list -ro space

This will display the AVAIL and USED sizes for each folder.