Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 11:38:54 +0000 (UTC) From: Benedict Reuschling <bcr@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-projects@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r42718 - projects/zfsupdate-201307/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/zfs Message-ID: <201309271138.r8RBcscQ039247@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: bcr Date: Fri Sep 27 11:38:54 2013 New Revision: 42718 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/42718 Log: Add a short section on how to set custom properties. Modified: projects/zfsupdate-201307/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/zfs/chapter.xml Modified: projects/zfsupdate-201307/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/zfs/chapter.xml ============================================================================== --- projects/zfsupdate-201307/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/zfs/chapter.xml Fri Sep 27 08:26:35 2013 (r42717) +++ projects/zfsupdate-201307/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/zfs/chapter.xml Fri Sep 27 11:38:54 2013 (r42718) @@ -543,6 +543,18 @@ errors: No known data errors</screen> <title>Setting Dataset Properties</title> <para></para> + + <para>It is possible to set user-defined properties in ZFS. They + become part of the pool configuration and can be used to provide + additional information about the pool or it's contents. To + distnguish these custom properties from the ones supplied by + ZFS by default, the colon (<literal>:</literal>) is used in the + property name.</para> + + <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>zfs set custom:costcenter=1234</userinput> +&prompt.root; <userinput>zfs get custom:costcenter</userinput> +NAME PROPERTY VALUE SOURCE +tank custom:costcenter 1234 local</screen> </sect2> <sect2 id="zfs-zfs-snapshot">
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