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community.general.zfs – Manage zfs
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.
Synopsis
- Manages ZFS file systems, volumes, clones and snapshots
 
Parameters
| Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments | 
|---|---|---|
| extra_zfs_properties
        
        dictionary
         | 
      
        
        A dictionary of zfs properties to be set.
        
       
        See the zfs(8) man page for more information.
         | 
     |
| name
        
        string / required
         | 
      
        
        File system, snapshot or volume name e.g.  rpool/myfs.
        | 
     |
| origin
        
        string
         | 
      
        
        Snapshot from which to create a clone.
         | 
     |
| state
        
        string / required
         | 
      
       
  | 
      
        
        Whether to create ( present), or remove (absent) a file system, snapshot or volume. All parents/children will be created/destroyed as needed to reach the desired state.
        | 
     
Notes
Note
check_modeis supported, but in certain situations it may report a task as changed that will not be reported as changed whencheck_modeis disabled. For example, this might occur when the zpoolaltrootoption is set or when a size is written using human-readable notation, such as1Mor1024K, instead of as an unqualified byte count, such as1048576.
Examples
- name: Create a new file system called myfs in pool rpool with the setuid property turned off
  community.general.zfs:
    name: rpool/myfs
    state: present
    extra_zfs_properties:
      setuid: off
- name: Create a new volume called myvol in pool rpool.
  community.general.zfs:
    name: rpool/myvol
    state: present
    extra_zfs_properties:
      volsize: 10M
- name: Create a snapshot of rpool/myfs file system.
  community.general.zfs:
    name: rpool/myfs@mysnapshot
    state: present
- name: Create a new file system called myfs2 with snapdir enabled
  community.general.zfs:
    name: rpool/myfs2
    state: present
    extra_zfs_properties:
      snapdir: enabled
- name: Create a new file system by cloning a snapshot
  community.general.zfs:
    name: rpool/cloned_fs
    state: present
    origin: rpool/myfs@mysnapshot
- name: Destroy a filesystem
  community.general.zfs:
    name: rpool/myfs
    state: absent
  Authors
- Johan Wiren (@johanwiren)
 
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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
 https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/zfs_module.html