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30.Dd August 9, 2019
31.Dt ZPOOL 8
32.Os
33.Sh NAME
34.Nm zpool
35.Nd configure ZFS storage pools
36.Sh SYNOPSIS
37.Nm
38.Fl ?V
39.Nm
40.Cm version
41.Nm
42.Cm <subcommand>
43.Op Ar <args>
44.Sh DESCRIPTION
45The
46.Nm
47command configures ZFS storage pools.
48A storage pool is a collection of devices that provides physical storage and
49data replication for ZFS datasets.
50All datasets within a storage pool share the same space.
51See
52.Xr zfs 8
53for information on managing datasets.
54.Pp
55For an overview of creating and managing ZFS storage pools see the
56.Xr zpoolconcepts 8
57manual page.
58.Sh SUBCOMMANDS
59All subcommands that modify state are logged persistently to the pool in their
60original form.
61.Pp
62The
63.Nm
64command provides subcommands to create and destroy storage pools, add capacity
65to storage pools, and provide information about the storage pools.
66The following subcommands are supported:
67.Bl -tag -width Ds
68.It Xo
69.Nm
70.Fl ?
71.Xc
72Displays a help message.
73.It Xo
74.Nm
75.Fl V, -version
76.Xc
77An alias for the
78.Nm zpool Cm version
79subcommand.
80.It Xo
81.Nm
82.Cm version
83.Xc
84Displays the software version of the
85.Nm
86userland utility and the zfs kernel module.
87.El
88.Ss Creation
89.Bl -tag -width Ds
90.It Xr zpool-create 8
91Creates a new storage pool containing the virtual devices specified on the
92command line.
93.It Xr zpool-initialize 8
94Begins initializing by writing to all unallocated regions on the specified
95devices, or all eligible devices in the pool if no individual devices are
96specified.
97.El
98.Ss Destruction
99.Bl -tag -width Ds
100.It Xr zpool-destroy 8
101Destroys the given pool, freeing up any devices for other use.
102.It Xr zpool-labelclear 8
103Removes ZFS label information from the specified
104.Ar device .
105.El
106.Ss Virtual Devices
107.Bl -tag -width Ds
108.It Xo
109.Xr zpool-attach 8 /
110.Xr zpool-detach 8
111.Xc
112Increases or decreases redundancy by
113.Cm attach Ns -ing or
114.Cm detach Ns -ing a device on an existing vdev (virtual device).
115.It Xo
116.Xr zpool-add 8 /
117.Xr zpool-remove 8
118.Xc
119Adds the specified virtual devices to the given pool,
120or removes the specified device from the pool.
121.It Xr zpool-replace 8
122Replaces an existing device (which may be faulted) with a new one.
123.It Xr zpool-split 8
124Creates a new pool by splitting all mirrors in an existing pool (which decreases its redundancy).
125.El
126.Ss Properties
127Available pool properties listed in the
128.Xr zpoolprops 8
129manual page.
130.Bl -tag -width Ds
131.It Xr zpool-list 8
132Lists the given pools along with a health status and space usage.
133.It Xo
134.Xr zpool-get 8 /
135.Xr zpool-set 8
136.Xc
137Retrieves the given list of properties
138.Po
139or all properties if
140.Sy all
141is used
142.Pc
143for the specified storage pool(s).
144.El
145.Ss Monitoring
146.Bl -tag -width Ds
147.It Xr zpool-status 8
148Displays the detailed health status for the given pools.
149.It Xr zpool-iostat 8
150Displays logical I/O statistics for the given pools/vdevs. Physical I/Os may
151be observed via
152.Xr iostat 1 .
153.It Xr zpool-events 8
154Lists all recent events generated by the ZFS kernel modules.  These events
155are consumed by the
156.Xr zed 8
157and used to automate administrative tasks such as replacing a failed device
158with a hot spare. For more information about the subclasses and event payloads
159that can be generated see the
160.Xr zfs-events 5
161man page.
162.It Xr zpool-history 8
163Displays the command history of the specified pool(s) or all pools if no pool is
164specified.
165.El
166.Ss Maintenance
167.Bl -tag -width Ds
168.It Xr zpool-scrub 8
169Begins a scrub or resumes a paused scrub.
170.It Xr zpool-checkpoint 8
171Checkpoints the current state of
172.Ar pool
173, which can be later restored by
174.Nm zpool Cm import --rewind-to-checkpoint .
175.It Xr zpool-trim 8
176Initiates an immediate on-demand TRIM operation for all of the free space in
177a pool.  This operation informs the underlying storage devices of all blocks
178in the pool which are no longer allocated and allows thinly provisioned
179devices to reclaim the space.
180.It Xr zpool-sync 8
181This command forces all in-core dirty data to be written to the primary
182pool storage and not the ZIL. It will also update administrative
183information including quota reporting. Without arguments,
184.Sy zpool sync
185will sync all pools on the system. Otherwise, it will sync only the
186specified pool(s).
187.It Xr zpool-upgrade 8
188Manage the on-disk format version of storage pools.
189.It Xr zpool-wait 8
190Waits until all background activity of the given types has ceased in the given
191pool.
192.El
193.Ss Fault Resolution
194.Bl -tag -width Ds
195.It Xo
196.Xr zpool-offline 8
197.Xr zpool-online 8
198.Xc
199Takes the specified physical device offline or brings it online.
200.It Xr zpool-resilver 8
201Starts a resilver. If an existing resilver is already running it will be
202restarted from the beginning.
203.It Xr zpool-reopen 8
204Reopen all the vdevs associated with the pool.
205.It Xr zpool-clear 8
206Clears device errors in a pool.
207.El
208.Ss Import & Export
209.Bl -tag -width Ds
210.It Xr zpool-import 8
211Make disks containing ZFS storage pools available for use on the system.
212.It Xr zpool-export 8
213Exports the given pools from the system.
214.It Xr zpool-reguid 8
215Generates a new unique identifier for the pool.
216.El
217.Sh EXIT STATUS
218The following exit values are returned:
219.Bl -tag -width Ds
220.It Sy 0
221Successful completion.
222.It Sy 1
223An error occurred.
224.It Sy 2
225Invalid command line options were specified.
226.El
227.Sh EXAMPLES
228.Bl -tag -width Ds
229.It Sy Example 1 No Creating a RAID-Z Storage Pool
230The following command creates a pool with a single raidz root vdev that
231consists of six disks.
232.Bd -literal
233# zpool create tank raidz sda sdb sdc sdd sde sdf
234.Ed
235.It Sy Example 2 No Creating a Mirrored Storage Pool
236The following command creates a pool with two mirrors, where each mirror
237contains two disks.
238.Bd -literal
239# zpool create tank mirror sda sdb mirror sdc sdd
240.Ed
241.It Sy Example 3 No Creating a ZFS Storage Pool by Using Partitions
242The following command creates an unmirrored pool using two disk partitions.
243.Bd -literal
244# zpool create tank sda1 sdb2
245.Ed
246.It Sy Example 4 No Creating a ZFS Storage Pool by Using Files
247The following command creates an unmirrored pool using files.
248While not recommended, a pool based on files can be useful for experimental
249purposes.
250.Bd -literal
251# zpool create tank /path/to/file/a /path/to/file/b
252.Ed
253.It Sy Example 5 No Adding a Mirror to a ZFS Storage Pool
254The following command adds two mirrored disks to the pool
255.Em tank ,
256assuming the pool is already made up of two-way mirrors.
257The additional space is immediately available to any datasets within the pool.
258.Bd -literal
259# zpool add tank mirror sda sdb
260.Ed
261.It Sy Example 6 No Listing Available ZFS Storage Pools
262The following command lists all available pools on the system.
263In this case, the pool
264.Em zion
265is faulted due to a missing device.
266The results from this command are similar to the following:
267.Bd -literal
268# zpool list
269NAME    SIZE  ALLOC   FREE  EXPANDSZ   FRAG    CAP  DEDUP  HEALTH  ALTROOT
270rpool  19.9G  8.43G  11.4G         -    33%    42%  1.00x  ONLINE  -
271tank   61.5G  20.0G  41.5G         -    48%    32%  1.00x  ONLINE  -
272zion       -      -      -         -      -      -      -  FAULTED -
273.Ed
274.It Sy Example 7 No Destroying a ZFS Storage Pool
275The following command destroys the pool
276.Em tank
277and any datasets contained within.
278.Bd -literal
279# zpool destroy -f tank
280.Ed
281.It Sy Example 8 No Exporting a ZFS Storage Pool
282The following command exports the devices in pool
283.Em tank
284so that they can be relocated or later imported.
285.Bd -literal
286# zpool export tank
287.Ed
288.It Sy Example 9 No Importing a ZFS Storage Pool
289The following command displays available pools, and then imports the pool
290.Em tank
291for use on the system.
292The results from this command are similar to the following:
293.Bd -literal
294# zpool import
295  pool: tank
296    id: 15451357997522795478
297 state: ONLINE
298action: The pool can be imported using its name or numeric identifier.
299config:
300
301        tank        ONLINE
302          mirror    ONLINE
303            sda     ONLINE
304            sdb     ONLINE
305
306# zpool import tank
307.Ed
308.It Sy Example 10 No Upgrading All ZFS Storage Pools to the Current Version
309The following command upgrades all ZFS Storage pools to the current version of
310the software.
311.Bd -literal
312# zpool upgrade -a
313This system is currently running ZFS version 2.
314.Ed
315.It Sy Example 11 No Managing Hot Spares
316The following command creates a new pool with an available hot spare:
317.Bd -literal
318# zpool create tank mirror sda sdb spare sdc
319.Ed
320.Pp
321If one of the disks were to fail, the pool would be reduced to the degraded
322state.
323The failed device can be replaced using the following command:
324.Bd -literal
325# zpool replace tank sda sdd
326.Ed
327.Pp
328Once the data has been resilvered, the spare is automatically removed and is
329made available for use should another device fail.
330The hot spare can be permanently removed from the pool using the following
331command:
332.Bd -literal
333# zpool remove tank sdc
334.Ed
335.It Sy Example 12 No Creating a ZFS Pool with Mirrored Separate Intent Logs
336The following command creates a ZFS storage pool consisting of two, two-way
337mirrors and mirrored log devices:
338.Bd -literal
339# zpool create pool mirror sda sdb mirror sdc sdd log mirror \\
340  sde sdf
341.Ed
342.It Sy Example 13 No Adding Cache Devices to a ZFS Pool
343The following command adds two disks for use as cache devices to a ZFS storage
344pool:
345.Bd -literal
346# zpool add pool cache sdc sdd
347.Ed
348.Pp
349Once added, the cache devices gradually fill with content from main memory.
350Depending on the size of your cache devices, it could take over an hour for
351them to fill.
352Capacity and reads can be monitored using the
353.Cm iostat
354option as follows:
355.Bd -literal
356# zpool iostat -v pool 5
357.Ed
358.It Sy Example 14 No Removing a Mirrored top-level (Log or Data) Device
359The following commands remove the mirrored log device
360.Sy mirror-2
361and mirrored top-level data device
362.Sy mirror-1 .
363.Pp
364Given this configuration:
365.Bd -literal
366  pool: tank
367 state: ONLINE
368 scrub: none requested
369config:
370
371         NAME        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
372         tank        ONLINE       0     0     0
373           mirror-0  ONLINE       0     0     0
374             sda     ONLINE       0     0     0
375             sdb     ONLINE       0     0     0
376           mirror-1  ONLINE       0     0     0
377             sdc     ONLINE       0     0     0
378             sdd     ONLINE       0     0     0
379         logs
380           mirror-2  ONLINE       0     0     0
381             sde     ONLINE       0     0     0
382             sdf     ONLINE       0     0     0
383.Ed
384.Pp
385The command to remove the mirrored log
386.Sy mirror-2
387is:
388.Bd -literal
389# zpool remove tank mirror-2
390.Ed
391.Pp
392The command to remove the mirrored data
393.Sy mirror-1
394is:
395.Bd -literal
396# zpool remove tank mirror-1
397.Ed
398.It Sy Example 15 No Displaying expanded space on a device
399The following command displays the detailed information for the pool
400.Em data .
401This pool is comprised of a single raidz vdev where one of its devices
402increased its capacity by 10GB.
403In this example, the pool will not be able to utilize this extra capacity until
404all the devices under the raidz vdev have been expanded.
405.Bd -literal
406# zpool list -v data
407NAME         SIZE  ALLOC   FREE  EXPANDSZ   FRAG    CAP  DEDUP  HEALTH  ALTROOT
408data        23.9G  14.6G  9.30G         -    48%    61%  1.00x  ONLINE  -
409  raidz1    23.9G  14.6G  9.30G         -    48%
410    sda         -      -      -         -      -
411    sdb         -      -      -       10G      -
412    sdc         -      -      -         -      -
413.Ed
414.It Sy Example 16 No Adding output columns
415Additional columns can be added to the
416.Nm zpool Cm status
417and
418.Nm zpool Cm iostat
419output with
420.Fl c
421option.
422.Bd -literal
423# zpool status -c vendor,model,size
424   NAME     STATE  READ WRITE CKSUM vendor  model        size
425   tank     ONLINE 0    0     0
426   mirror-0 ONLINE 0    0     0
427   U1       ONLINE 0    0     0     SEAGATE ST8000NM0075 7.3T
428   U10      ONLINE 0    0     0     SEAGATE ST8000NM0075 7.3T
429   U11      ONLINE 0    0     0     SEAGATE ST8000NM0075 7.3T
430   U12      ONLINE 0    0     0     SEAGATE ST8000NM0075 7.3T
431   U13      ONLINE 0    0     0     SEAGATE ST8000NM0075 7.3T
432   U14      ONLINE 0    0     0     SEAGATE ST8000NM0075 7.3T
433
434# zpool iostat -vc size
435              capacity     operations     bandwidth
436pool        alloc   free   read  write   read  write  size
437----------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  ----
438rpool       14.6G  54.9G      4     55   250K  2.69M
439  sda1      14.6G  54.9G      4     55   250K  2.69M   70G
440----------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  ----
441.Ed
442.El
443.Sh ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
444.Bl -tag -width "ZFS_ABORT"
445.It Ev ZFS_ABORT
446Cause
447.Nm zpool
448to dump core on exit for the purposes of running
449.Sy ::findleaks .
450.El
451.Bl -tag -width "ZFS_COLOR"
452.It Ev ZFS_COLOR
453Use ANSI color in
454.Nm zpool status
455output.
456.El
457.Bl -tag -width "ZPOOL_IMPORT_PATH"
458.It Ev ZPOOL_IMPORT_PATH
459The search path for devices or files to use with the pool. This is a colon-separated list of directories in which
460.Nm zpool
461looks for device nodes and files.
462Similar to the
463.Fl d
464option in
465.Nm zpool import .
466.El
467.Bl -tag -width "ZPOOL_IMPORT_UDEV_TIMEOUT_MS"
468.It Ev ZPOOL_IMPORT_UDEV_TIMEOUT_MS
469The maximum time in milliseconds that
470.Nm zpool import
471will wait for an expected device to be available.
472.El
473.Bl -tag -width "ZPOOL_STATUS_NON_NATIVE_ASHIFT_IGNORE"
474.It Ev ZPOOL_STATUS_NON_NATIVE_ASHIFT_IGNORE
475If set, suppress warning about non-native vdev ashift in
476.Nm zpool status .
477The value is not used, only the presence or absence of the variable matters.
478.El
479.Bl -tag -width "ZPOOL_VDEV_NAME_GUID"
480.It Ev ZPOOL_VDEV_NAME_GUID
481Cause
482.Nm zpool
483subcommands to output vdev guids by default.  This behavior is identical to the
484.Nm zpool status -g
485command line option.
486.El
487.Bl -tag -width "ZPOOL_VDEV_NAME_FOLLOW_LINKS"
488.It Ev ZPOOL_VDEV_NAME_FOLLOW_LINKS
489Cause
490.Nm zpool
491subcommands to follow links for vdev names by default.  This behavior is identical to the
492.Nm zpool status -L
493command line option.
494.El
495.Bl -tag -width "ZPOOL_VDEV_NAME_PATH"
496.It Ev ZPOOL_VDEV_NAME_PATH
497Cause
498.Nm zpool
499subcommands to output full vdev path names by default.  This
500behavior is identical to the
501.Nm zpool status -P
502command line option.
503.El
504.Bl -tag -width "ZFS_VDEV_DEVID_OPT_OUT"
505.It Ev ZFS_VDEV_DEVID_OPT_OUT
506Older ZFS on Linux implementations had issues when attempting to display pool
507config VDEV names if a
508.Sy devid
509NVP value is present in the pool's config.
510.Pp
511For example, a pool that originated on illumos platform would have a devid
512value in the config and
513.Nm zpool status
514would fail when listing the config.
515This would also be true for future Linux based pools.
516.Pp
517A pool can be stripped of any
518.Sy devid
519values on import or prevented from adding
520them on
521.Nm zpool create
522or
523.Nm zpool add
524by setting
525.Sy ZFS_VDEV_DEVID_OPT_OUT .
526.El
527.Bl -tag -width "ZPOOL_SCRIPTS_AS_ROOT"
528.It Ev ZPOOL_SCRIPTS_AS_ROOT
529Allow a privileged user to run the
530.Nm zpool status/iostat
531with the
532.Fl c
533option.  Normally, only unprivileged users are allowed to run
534.Fl c .
535.El
536.Bl -tag -width "ZPOOL_SCRIPTS_PATH"
537.It Ev ZPOOL_SCRIPTS_PATH
538The search path for scripts when running
539.Nm zpool status/iostat
540with the
541.Fl c
542option. This is a colon-separated list of directories and overrides the default
543.Pa ~/.zpool.d
544and
545.Pa /etc/zfs/zpool.d
546search paths.
547.El
548.Bl -tag -width "ZPOOL_SCRIPTS_ENABLED"
549.It Ev ZPOOL_SCRIPTS_ENABLED
550Allow a user to run
551.Nm zpool status/iostat
552with the
553.Fl c
554option. If
555.Sy ZPOOL_SCRIPTS_ENABLED
556is not set, it is assumed that the user is allowed to run
557.Nm zpool status/iostat -c .
558.El
559.Sh INTERFACE STABILITY
560.Sy Evolving
561.Sh SEE ALSO
562.Xr zfs-events 5 ,
563.Xr zfs-module-parameters 5 ,
564.Xr zpool-features 5 ,
565.Xr zed 8 ,
566.Xr zfs 8 ,
567.Xr zpool-add 8 ,
568.Xr zpool-attach 8 ,
569.Xr zpool-checkpoint 8 ,
570.Xr zpool-clear 8 ,
571.Xr zpool-create 8 ,
572.Xr zpool-destroy 8 ,
573.Xr zpool-detach 8 ,
574.Xr zpool-events 8 ,
575.Xr zpool-export 8 ,
576.Xr zpool-get 8 ,
577.Xr zpool-history 8 ,
578.Xr zpool-import 8 ,
579.Xr zpool-initialize 8 ,
580.Xr zpool-iostat 8 ,
581.Xr zpool-labelclear 8 ,
582.Xr zpool-list 8 ,
583.Xr zpool-offline 8 ,
584.Xr zpool-online 8 ,
585.Xr zpool-reguid 8 ,
586.Xr zpool-remove 8 ,
587.Xr zpool-reopen 8 ,
588.Xr zpool-replace 8 ,
589.Xr zpool-resilver 8 ,
590.Xr zpool-scrub 8 ,
591.Xr zpool-set 8 ,
592.Xr zpool-split 8 ,
593.Xr zpool-status 8 ,
594.Xr zpool-sync 8 ,
595.Xr zpool-trim 8 ,
596.Xr zpool-upgrade 8 ,
597.Xr zpool-wait 8 ,
598.Xr zpoolconcepts 8 ,
599.Xr zpoolprops 8
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