>> There will doubtless be better ZFS answers, but could be interesting
It used to be that this situation could arise even without snapshots
or such "mitigating" circumstances. I'm pretty sure this was fixed,
such that you would not get into a catch-22 under such
circumstances. However I don't have the ML post I read this in, and I
do not know whether the fix has been integrated into FreeBSD (though
this was a while ago, so I would have guess it had).
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