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community.general.zfs_facts – Gather facts about ZFS datasets.

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 3.8.1).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.zfs_facts.

Synopsis

  • Gather facts from ZFS dataset properties.

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
depth
integer
Specifies recursion depth.
name
string / required
ZFS dataset name.

aliases: ds, dataset
parsable
boolean
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Specifies if property values should be displayed in machine friendly format.
properties
string
Default:
"all"
Specifies which dataset properties should be queried in comma-separated format. For more information about dataset properties, check zfs(1M) man page.
recurse
boolean
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Specifies if properties for any children should be recursively displayed.
type
string
    Choices:
  • all ←
  • filesystem
  • volume
  • snapshot
  • bookmark
Specifies which datasets types to display. Multiple values have to be provided in comma-separated form.

Examples

- name: Gather facts about ZFS dataset rpool/export/home
  community.general.zfs_facts:
    dataset: rpool/export/home

- name: Report space usage on ZFS filesystems under data/home
  community.general.zfs_facts:
    name: data/home
    recurse: yes
    type: filesystem

- ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: 'ZFS dataset {{ item.name }} consumes {{ item.used }} of disk space.'
  with_items: '{{ ansible_zfs_datasets }}'

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key Returned Description
name
string
always
ZFS dataset name

Sample:
rpool/var/spool
parsable
boolean
if 'parsable' is set to True
if parsable output should be provided in machine friendly format.

Sample:
True
recurse
boolean
if 'recurse' is set to True
if we should recurse over ZFS dataset

Sample:
True
zfs_datasets
string
always
ZFS dataset facts

Sample:
{'aclinherit': 'restricted', 'aclmode': 'discard', 'atime': 'on', 'available': '43.8G', 'canmount': 'on', 'casesensitivity': 'sensitive', 'checksum': 'on', 'compression': 'off', 'compressratio': '1.00x', 'copies': '1', 'creation': 'Thu Jun 16 11:37 2016', 'dedup': 'off', 'devices': 'on', 'exec': 'on', 'filesystem_count': 'none', 'filesystem_limit': 'none', 'logbias': 'latency', 'logicalreferenced': '18.5K', 'logicalused': '3.45G', 'mlslabel': 'none', 'mounted': 'yes', 'mountpoint': '/rpool', 'name': 'rpool', 'nbmand': 'off', 'normalization': 'none', 'org.openindiana.caiman:install': 'ready', 'primarycache': 'all', 'quota': 'none', 'readonly': 'off', 'recordsize': '128K', 'redundant_metadata': 'all', 'refcompressratio': '1.00x', 'referenced': '29.5K', 'refquota': 'none', 'refreservation': 'none', 'reservation': 'none', 'secondarycache': 'all', 'setuid': 'on', 'sharenfs': 'off', 'sharesmb': 'off', 'snapdir': 'hidden', 'snapshot_count': 'none', 'snapshot_limit': 'none', 'sync': 'standard', 'type': 'filesystem', 'used': '4.41G', 'usedbychildren': '4.41G', 'usedbydataset': '29.5K', 'usedbyrefreservation': '0', 'usedbysnapshots': '0', 'utf8only': 'off', 'version': '5', 'vscan': 'off', 'written': '29.5K', 'xattr': 'on', 'zoned': 'off'}


Authors

  • Adam Števko (@xen0l)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/zfs_facts_module.html