community.general.zfs_facts module – Gather facts about ZFS datasets

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 6.6.9).

It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.zfs_facts.

Synopsis

  • Gather facts from ZFS dataset properties.

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

depth

integer

Specifies recursion depth.

Default: 0

name

aliases: ds, dataset

string / required

ZFS dataset name.

parsable

boolean

Specifies if property values should be displayed in machine friendly format.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

properties

string

Specifies which dataset properties should be queried in comma-separated format. For more information about dataset properties, check zfs(1M) man page.

Default: "all"

recurse

boolean

Specifies if properties for any children should be recursively displayed.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

type

string

Specifies which datasets types to display. Multiple values have to be provided in comma-separated form.

Choices:

  • "all" ← (default)

  • "filesystem"

  • "volume"

  • "snapshot"

  • "bookmark"

Attributes

Attribute

Support

Description

check_mode

Support: full

This action does not modify state.

Can run in check_mode and return changed status prediction without modifying target.

diff_mode

Support: N/A

This action does not modify state.

Will return details on what has changed (or possibly needs changing in check_mode), when in diff mode.

facts

Support: full

Action returns an ansible_facts dictionary that will update existing host facts.

Examples

- name: Gather facts about ZFS dataset rpool/export/home
  community.general.zfs_facts:
    dataset: rpool/export/home

- name: Report space usage on ZFS filesystems under data/home
  community.general.zfs_facts:
    name: data/home
    recurse: true
    type: filesystem

- ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: 'ZFS dataset {{ item.name }} consumes {{ item.used }} of disk space.'
  with_items: '{{ ansible_zfs_datasets }}'

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key

Description

name

string

ZFS dataset name

Returned: always

Sample: "rpool/var/spool"

parsable

boolean

if parsable output should be provided in machine friendly format.

Returned: if ‘parsable’ is set to True

Sample: true

recurse

boolean

if we should recurse over ZFS dataset

Returned: if ‘recurse’ is set to True

Sample: true

zfs_datasets

string

ZFS dataset facts

Returned: always

Sample: "{'aclinherit': 'restricted', 'aclmode': 'discard', 'atime': 'on', 'available': '43.8G', 'canmount': 'on', 'casesensitivity': 'sensitive', 'checksum': 'on', 'compression': 'off', 'compressratio': '1.00x', 'copies': '1', 'creation': 'Thu Jun 16 11:37 2016', 'dedup': 'off', 'devices': 'on', 'exec': 'on', 'filesystem_count': 'none', 'filesystem_limit': 'none', 'logbias': 'latency', 'logicalreferenced': '18.5K', 'logicalused': '3.45G', 'mlslabel': 'none', 'mounted': 'yes', 'mountpoint': '/rpool', 'name': 'rpool', 'nbmand': 'off', 'normalization': 'none', 'org.openindiana.caiman:install': 'ready', 'primarycache': 'all', 'quota': 'none', 'readonly': 'off', 'recordsize': '128K', 'redundant_metadata': 'all', 'refcompressratio': '1.00x', 'referenced': '29.5K', 'refquota': 'none', 'refreservation': 'none', 'reservation': 'none', 'secondarycache': 'all', 'setuid': 'on', 'sharenfs': 'off', 'sharesmb': 'off', 'snapdir': 'hidden', 'snapshot_count': 'none', 'snapshot_limit': 'none', 'sync': 'standard', 'type': 'filesystem', 'used': '4.41G', 'usedbychildren': '4.41G', 'usedbydataset': '29.5K', 'usedbyrefreservation': '0', 'usedbysnapshots': '0', 'utf8only': 'off', 'version': '5', 'vscan': 'off', 'written': '29.5K', 'xattr': 'on', 'zoned': 'off'}"

Authors

  • Adam Števko (@xen0l)