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Date:      Thu, 21 May 2009 11:28:19 -0400
From:      Louis Mamakos <louie@transsys.com>
To:        Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS MFC heads up
Message-ID:  <6F2AF4C4-B6DC-4CA0-83DA-BFE9CA1AD1A9@transsys.com>
In-Reply-To: <b269bc570905210822x45b61181h4e497f00750e3776@mail.gmail.com>
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On May 21, 2009, at 11:22 AM, Freddie Cash wrote:

> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 7:12 AM, Louis Mamakos <louie@transsys.com>  
> wrote:
>> FYI, I just did an upgrade of my RELENG_7 machine with the new ZFS  
>> merged
>> in, and it seems to have gone mostly trouble-free.  I noticed one  
>> weirdness
>> that could be confusion on my part - I'm no longer seeing snapshots  
>> when I
>> do 'zfs list'.  There's a UI change in the zfs command, and to see
>> snapshots, you have to explicitly ask for them:
>
> It's a known change made to the zfs tool somewhere around v11 or so.
> It's documented in all the Solaris notes about ZFS.  You have to
> explicitily list the type of dataset(s) you want to list with "zfs
> list".  By default, it only shows filesystems.  You even have to use
> -t if you want to list volumes.
>
> Reading up on the Solaris docs for ZFS is quite enlightening.  :)

We might want to update the zfs(1) man page in the examples for the
'list' subcommand.  I think I actually like the new behavior, it was  
just
a little unnerving at first to have the snapshots be missing after
the MFC.

louie



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