Pool Related Commands

• zpool create datapool c0t0d0 - Create a basic pool named datapool
• zpool create -f datapool c0t0d0 - Force the creation of a pool
• zpool create -m /data datapool c0t0d0 - Create a pool with a different mount point than the default.
• zpool create datapool raidz c3t0d0 c3t1d0 c3t2d0 - Create RAID-Z vdev pool
• zpool add datapool raidz c4t0d0 c4t1d0 c4t2d0 - Add RAID-Z vdev to pool datapool
• zpool create datapool raidz1 c0t0d0 c0t1d0 c0t2d0 c0t3d0 c0t4d0 c0t5d0 - Create RAID-Z1 pool
• zpool create datapool raidz2 c0t0d0 c0t1d0 c0t2d0 c0t3d0 c0t4d0 c0t5d0 - Create RAID-Z2 pool
• zpool create datapool mirror c0t0d0 c0t5d0 - Mirror c0t0d0 to c0t5d0
• zpool create datapool mirror c0t0d0 c0t5d0 mirror c0t2d0 c0t4d0 - disk c0t0d0 is mirrored with c0t5d0 and disk c0t2d0 is mirrored withc0t4d0
• zpool add datapool mirror c3t0d0 c3t1d0 - Add new mirrored vdev to datapool
• zpool add datapool spare c1t3d0 - Add spare device c1t3d0 to the datapool
• zpool create -n datapool c1t3d0 - Do a dry run on pool creation

  Show Pool Information

• zpool status -x - Show pool status
• zpool status -v datapool - Show individual pool status in verbose mode
• zpool list - Show all the pools
• zpool list -o name,size - Show particular properties of all the pools (here, name and size)
• zpool list -Ho name - Show all pools without headers and columns

  File-system/Volume related commands

• zfs create datapool/fs1 - Create file-system fs1 under datapool
• zfs create -V 1gb datapool/vol01 - Create 1 GB volume (Block device) in datapool
• zfs destroy -r datapool - destroy datapool and all datasets under it.
• zfs destroy -fr datapool/data - destroy file-system or volume (data) and all related snapshots

  Set ZFS file system properties

• zfs set quota=1G datapool/fs1 - Set quota of 1 GB on filesystem fs1
• zfs set reservation=1G datapool/fs1 - Set Reservation of 1 GB on filesystem fs1
• zfs set mountpoint=legacy datapool/fs1 - Disable ZFS auto mounting and enable mounting through /etc/vfstab.
• zfs set sharenfs=on datapool/fs1 - Share fs1 as NFS
• zfs set compression=on datapool/fs1 - Enable compression on fs1

  File-system/Volume related commands

• zfs create datapool/fs1 - Create file-system fs1 under datapool
• zfs create -V 1gb datapool/vol01 - Create 1 GB volume (Block device) in datapool
• zfs destroy -r datapool - destroy datapool and all datasets under it.
• zfs destroy -fr datapool/data - destroy file-system or volume (data) and all related snapshots

  Show file system info

• zfs list - List all ZFS file system
• zfs get all datapool - List all properties of a ZFS file system

  Mount/Umount Related Commands

• zfs set mountpoint=/data datapool/fs1 - Set the mount-point of file system fs1 to /data
• zfs mount datapool/fs1 - Mount fs1 file system
• zfs umount datapool/fs1 - Umount ZFS file system fs1
• zfs mount -a - Mount all ZFS file systems
• zfs umount -a - Umount all ZFS file systems

  ZFS I/O performance

• zpool iostat 2 - Display ZFS I/O Statistics every 2 seconds
• zpool iostat -v 2 - Display detailed ZFS I/O statistics every 2 seconds

  ZFS maintenance commands

• zpool scrub datapool - Run scrub on all file systems under data pool
• zpool offline -t datapool c0t0d0 - Temporarily offline a disk (until next reboot)
• zpool online - Online a disk to clear error count
• zpool clear - Clear error count without a need to the disk

  Import/Export Commands

• zpool import - List pools available for import
• zpool import -a - Imports all pools found in the search directories
• zpool import -d - To search for pools with block devices not located in /dev/dsk
• zpool import -d /zfs datapool - Search for a pool with block devices created in /zfs
• zpool import oldpool newpool - Import a pool originally named oldpool under new name newpool
• zpool import 3987837483 - Import pool using pool ID
• zpool export datapool - Deport a ZFS pool named mypool
• zpool export -f datapool - Force the unmount and deport of a ZFS pool

  Snapshot Commands

• zfs snapshot datapool/fs1@12jan2014 - Create a snapshot named 12jan2014 of the fs1 filesystem
• zfs list -t snapshot - List snapshots
• zfs rollback -r datapool/fs1@10jan2014 - Roll back to 10jan2014 (recursively destroy intermediate snapshots)
• zfs rollback -rf datapool/fs1@10jan2014 - Roll back must and force unmount and remount
• zfs destroy datapool/fs1@10jan2014 - Destroy snapshot created earlier
• zfs send datapool/fs1@oct2013 &gt /geekpool/fs1/oct2013.bak - Take a backup of ZFS snapshot locally
• zfs receive anotherpool/fs1 &lt /geekpool/fs1/oct2013.bak - Restore from the snapshot backup backup taken
• zfs send datapool/fs1@oct2013 | zfs receive anotherpool/fs1 - Combine the send and receive operation
• zfs send datapool/fs1@oct2013 | ssh node02 “zfs receive testpool/testfs” - Send the snapshot to a remote system node02

  Clone Commands

• zfs clone datapool/fs1@10jan2014 /clones/fs1 - Clone an existing snapshot
• zfs destroy datapool/fs1@10jan2014 - Destroy clone