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23.Dd October 30, 2022
24.Dt VDEVPROPS 7
25.Os
26.
27.Sh NAME
28.Nm vdevprops
29.Nd native and user-defined properties of ZFS vdevs
30.
31.Sh DESCRIPTION
32Properties are divided into two types, native properties and user-defined
33.Pq or Qq user
34properties.
35Native properties either export internal statistics or control ZFS behavior.
36In addition, native properties are either editable or read-only.
37User properties have no effect on ZFS behavior, but you can use them to annotate
38vdevs in a way that is meaningful in your environment.
39For more information about user properties, see the
40.Sx User Properties
41section, below.
42.
43.Ss Native Properties
44Every vdev has a set of properties that export statistics about the vdev
45as well as control various behaviors.
46Properties are not inherited from top-level vdevs, with the exception of
47checksum_n, checksum_t, io_n, and io_t.
48.Pp
49The values of numeric properties can be specified using human-readable suffixes
50.Po for example,
51.Sy k , KB , M , Gb ,
52and so forth, up to
53.Sy Z
54for zettabyte
55.Pc .
56The following are all valid
57.Pq and equal
58specifications:
59.Li 1536M , 1.5g , 1.50GB .
60.Pp
61The values of non-numeric properties are case sensitive and must be lowercase.
62.Pp
63The following native properties consist of read-only statistics about the
64vdev.
65These properties can not be changed.
66.Bl -tag -width "fragmentation"
67.It Sy capacity
68Percentage of vdev space used
69.It Sy state
70state of this vdev such as online, faulted, or offline
71.It Sy guid
72globally unique id of this vdev
73.It Sy asize
74The allocable size of this vdev
75.It Sy psize
76The physical size of this vdev
77.It Sy ashift
78The physical sector size of this vdev expressed as the power of two
79.It Sy size
80The total size of this vdev
81.It Sy free
82The amount of remaining free space on this vdev
83.It Sy allocated
84The amount of allocated space on this vdev
85.It Sy expandsize
86How much this vdev can expand by
87.It Sy fragmentation
88Percent of fragmentation in this vdev
89.It Sy parity
90The level of parity for this vdev
91.It Sy devid
92The device id for this vdev
93.It Sy physpath
94The physical path to the device
95.It Sy encpath
96The enclosure path to the device
97.It Sy fru
98Field Replacable Unit, usually a model number
99.It Sy parent
100Parent of this vdev
101.It Sy children
102Comma separated list of children of this vdev
103.It Sy numchildren
104The number of children belonging to this vdev
105.It Sy read_errors , write_errors , checksum_errors , initialize_errors
106The number of errors of each type encountered by this vdev
107.It Sy null_ops , read_ops , write_ops , free_ops , claim_ops , trim_ops
108The number of I/O operations of each type performed by this vdev
109.It Xo
110.Sy null_bytes , read_bytes , write_bytes , free_bytes , claim_bytes ,
111.Sy trim_bytes
112.Xc
113The cumulative size of all operations of each type performed by this vdev
114.It Sy removing
115If this device is currently being removed from the pool
116.El
117.Pp
118The following native properties can be used to change the behavior of a vdev.
119.Bl -tag -width "allocating"
120.It Sy checksum_n , checksum_t , io_n , io_t
121Tune the fault management daemon by specifying checksum/io thresholds of <N>
122errors in <T> seconds, respectively.
123These properties can be set on leaf and top-level vdevs.
124When the property is set on the leaf and top-level vdev, the value of the leaf
125vdev will be used.
126If the property is only set on the top-level vdev, this value will be used.
127The value of these properties do not persist across vdev replacement.
128For this reason, it is advisable to set the property on the top-level vdev -
129not on the leaf vdev itself.
130The default values are 10 errors in 600 seconds.
131.It Sy comment
132A text comment up to 8192 characters long
133.It Sy bootsize
134The amount of space to reserve for the EFI system partition
135.It Sy failfast
136If this device should propage BIO errors back to ZFS, used to disable
137failfast.
138.It Sy path
139The path to the device for this vdev
140.It Sy allocating
141If this device should perform new allocations, used to disable a device
142when it is scheduled for later removal.
143See
144.Xr zpool-remove 8 .
145.El
146.Ss User Properties
147In addition to the standard native properties, ZFS supports arbitrary user
148properties.
149User properties have no effect on ZFS behavior, but applications or
150administrators can use them to annotate vdevs.
151.Pp
152User property names must contain a colon
153.Pq Qq Sy \&:
154character to distinguish them from native properties.
155They may contain lowercase letters, numbers, and the following punctuation
156characters: colon
157.Pq Qq Sy \&: ,
158dash
159.Pq Qq Sy - ,
160period
161.Pq Qq Sy \&. ,
162and underscore
163.Pq Qq Sy _ .
164The expected convention is that the property name is divided into two portions
165such as
166.Ar module : Ns Ar property ,
167but this namespace is not enforced by ZFS.
168User property names can be at most 256 characters, and cannot begin with a dash
169.Pq Qq Sy - .
170.Pp
171When making programmatic use of user properties, it is strongly suggested to use
172a reversed DNS domain name for the
173.Ar module
174component of property names to reduce the chance that two
175independently-developed packages use the same property name for different
176purposes.
177.Pp
178The values of user properties are arbitrary strings and
179are never validated.
180Use the
181.Nm zpool Cm set
182command with a blank value to clear a user property.
183Property values are limited to 8192 bytes.
184.Sh SEE ALSO
185.Xr zpoolprops 7 ,
186.Xr zpool-set 8
187