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author | Toomas Soome <[email protected]> | 2022-06-24 19:48:10 +0300 |
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committer | GitHub <[email protected]> | 2022-06-24 09:48:10 -0700 |
commit | 83691bebf062d13e64a93ff80bf727cd1c162bb2 (patch) | |
tree | 5a21a81fd3f729ffddafeeee6003f4cdf1bc7369 /man/man7/zpool-features.7 | |
parent | ad8b9f940c1e39a38af61934737c1e4cf8ab5c08 (diff) |
Use macros for quotes and such
Use Dq,Pq/Po/Pc macros. illumos dumpadm is now in section 8.
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Toomas Soome <[email protected]>
Closes #13586
Diffstat (limited to 'man/man7/zpool-features.7')
-rw-r--r-- | man/man7/zpool-features.7 | 121 |
1 files changed, 81 insertions, 40 deletions
diff --git a/man/man7/zpool-features.7 b/man/man7/zpool-features.7 index df9e64701..ed5cd419d 100644 --- a/man/man7/zpool-features.7 +++ b/man/man7/zpool-features.7 @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ .\" Copyright (c) 2019, Allan Jude .\" Copyright (c) 2021, Colm Buckley <[email protected]> .\" -.Dd May 31, 2021 +.Dd June 23, 2022 .Dt ZPOOL-FEATURES 7 .Os . @@ -27,8 +27,10 @@ .Nd description of ZFS pool features . .Sh DESCRIPTION -ZFS pool on-disk format versions are specified via "features" which replace -the old on-disk format numbers (the last supported on-disk format number is 28). +ZFS pool on-disk format versions are specified via +.Dq features +which replace the old on-disk format numbers +.Pq the last supported on-disk format number is 28 . To enable a feature on a pool use the .Nm zpool Cm upgrade , or set the @@ -62,10 +64,12 @@ implementation that created the pool for information about those features. Each supported feature also has a short name. By convention a feature's short name is the portion of its GUID which follows the .Sq \&: -(i.e. +.Po +i.e. .Ar com.example : Ns Ar feature-name would have the short name -.Ar feature-name ) , +.Ar feature-name +.Pc , however a feature's short name may differ across ZFS implementations if following the convention would result in name conflicts. . @@ -110,9 +114,11 @@ These features are referred to as If all unsupported features on a pool are read-only compatible, the pool can be imported in read-only mode by setting the .Sy readonly -property during import (see +property during import +.Po see .Xr zpool-import 8 -for details on importing pools). +for details on importing pools +.Pc . . .Ss Unsupported features For each unsupported feature enabled on an imported pool, a pool property @@ -143,15 +149,19 @@ The feature facilitates this by allowing feature sets to be read from text files. When set to .Sy off -(the default), compatibility feature sets are disabled -(i.e. all features are enabled); when set to +.Pq the default , +compatibility feature sets are disabled +.Pq i.e. all features are enabled ; +when set to .Sy legacy , no features are enabled. When set to a comma-separated list of filenames -(each filename may either be an absolute path, or relative to +.Po +each filename may either be an absolute path, or relative to .Pa /etc/zfs/compatibility.d or -.Pa /usr/share/zfs/compatibility.d ) , +.Pa /usr/share/zfs/compatibility.d +.Pc , the lists of requested features are read from those files, separated by whitespace and/or commas. Only features present in all files are enabled. @@ -291,7 +301,9 @@ This feature enables support for separate allocation classes. .Pp This feature becomes .Sy active -when a dedicated allocation class vdev (dedup or special) is created with the +when a dedicated allocation class vdev +.Pq dedup or special +is created with the .Nm zpool Cm create No or Nm zpool Cm add No commands . With device removal, it can be returned to the .Sy enabled @@ -356,8 +368,9 @@ state when all v2 bookmarks are destroyed. .feature com.delphix bookmark_written no bookmark extensible_dataset bookmark_v2 This feature enables additional bookmark accounting fields, enabling the .Sy written Ns # Ns Ar bookmark -property (space written since a bookmark) and estimates of -send stream sizes for incrementals from bookmarks. +property +.Pq space written since a bookmark +and estimates of send stream sizes for incrementals from bookmarks. .Pp This feature becomes .Sy active @@ -372,7 +385,8 @@ This feature enables the ability for the and .Nm zpool Cm replace commands to perform sequential reconstruction -(instead of healing reconstruction) when resilvering. +.Pq instead of healing reconstruction +when resilvering. .Pp Sequential reconstruction resilvers a device in LBA order without immediately verifying the checksums. @@ -424,8 +438,10 @@ vdev to an existing pool. . .feature org.illumos edonr no extensible_dataset This feature enables the use of the Edon-R hash algorithm for checksum, -including for nopwrite (if compression is also enabled, an overwrite of -a block whose checksum matches the data being written will be ignored). +including for nopwrite +.Po if compression is also enabled, an overwrite of +a block whose checksum matches the data being written will be ignored +.Pc . In an abundance of caution, Edon-R requires verification when used with dedup: .Nm zfs Cm set Sy dedup Ns = Ns Sy edonr , Ns Sy verify @@ -433,13 +449,15 @@ dedup: .Pp Edon-R is a very high-performance hash algorithm that was part of the NIST SHA-3 competition. -It provides extremely high hash performance (over 350% faster than SHA-256), +It provides extremely high hash performance +.Pq over 350% faster than SHA-256 , but was not selected because of its unsuitability as a general purpose secure hash algorithm. This implementation utilizes the new salted checksumming functionality in ZFS, which means that the checksum is pre-seeded with a secret -256-bit random key (stored on the pool) before being fed the data block -to be checksummed. +256-bit random key +.Pq stored on the pool +before being fed the data block to be checksummed. Thus the produced checksums are unique to a given pool, preventing hash collision attacks on systems with dedup. .Pp @@ -452,10 +470,15 @@ Blocks whose contents can compress to 112 bytes or smaller can take advantage of this feature. .Pp When this feature is enabled, the contents of highly-compressible blocks are -stored in the block "pointer" itself (a misnomer in this case, as it contains -the compressed data, rather than a pointer to its location on disk). -Thus the space of the block (one sector, typically 512 B or 4 KiB) is saved, -and no additional I/O is needed to read and write the data block. +stored in the block +.Dq pointer +itself +.Po a misnomer in this case, as it contains +the compressed data, rather than a pointer to its location on disk +.Pc . +Thus the space of the block +.Pq one sector, typically 512 B or 4 KiB +is saved, and no additional I/O is needed to read and write the data block. . \*[instant-never] . @@ -465,7 +488,9 @@ number of snapshots of a single filesystem or volume, and also reduces the disk space required. .Pp When there are many snapshots, each snapshot uses many Block Pointer -Objects (bpobjs) to track blocks associated with that snapshot. +Objects +.Pq bpobjs +to track blocks associated with that snapshot. However, in common use cases, most of these bpobjs are empty. This feature allows us to create each bpobj on-demand, thus eliminating the empty bpobjs. @@ -536,7 +561,12 @@ will not match the source. Its use by .Nm zfs Cm send Fl i has been disabled by default -.Pq see Sy send_holes_without_birth_time No in Xr zfs 4 . +.Po +see +.Sy send_holes_without_birth_time +in +.Xr zfs 4 +.Pc . .Pp This feature improves performance of incremental sends .Pq Nm zfs Cm send Fl i @@ -549,8 +579,10 @@ contains information about every block that changed between .Sy A No and Sy B . Blocks which did not change between those snapshots can be identified and omitted from the stream using a piece of metadata called -the "block birth time", but birth times are not recorded for holes -(blocks filled only with zeroes). +the +.Dq block birth time , +but birth times are not recorded for holes +.Pq blocks filled only with zeroes . Since holes created after .Sy A No cannot be distinguished from holes created before Sy A , information about every hole in the entire filesystem or zvol @@ -558,9 +590,9 @@ is included in the send stream. .Pp For workloads where holes are rare this is not a problem. However, when incrementally replicating filesystems or zvols with many holes -(for example a zvol formatted with another filesystem) a lot of time will -be spent sending and receiving unnecessary information about holes that -already exist on the receiving side. +.Pq for example a zvol formatted with another filesystem +a lot of time will be spent sending and receiving unnecessary information +about holes that already exist on the receiving side. .Pp Once the .Sy hole_birth @@ -657,7 +689,7 @@ When the feature is set to .Sy enabled , the administrator can use -.Xr dumpadm 1M +.Xr dumpadm 8 to configure a dump device on a pool comprised of multiple vdevs. .Pp Under @@ -677,7 +709,9 @@ This feature is an enhancement of .Sy device_removal , which will over time reduce the memory used to track removed devices. When indirect blocks are freed or remapped, -we note that their part of the indirect mapping is "obsolete" – no longer needed. +we note that their part of the indirect mapping is +.Dq obsolete +– no longer needed. .Pp This feature becomes .Sy active @@ -688,7 +722,8 @@ command is used on a top-level vdev, and will never return to being . .feature org.zfsonlinux project_quota yes extensible_dataset This feature allows administrators to account the spaces and objects usage -information against the project identifier (ID). +information against the project identifier +.Pq ID . .Pp The project ID is an object-based attribute. When upgrading an existing filesystem, @@ -698,7 +733,8 @@ their parent directories' project ID if the parent's inherit flag is set .Pq via Nm chattr Sy [+-]P No or Nm zfs Cm project Fl s Ns | Ns Fl C . Otherwise, the new object's project ID will be zero. An object's project ID can be changed at any time by the owner -(or privileged user) via +.Pq or privileged user +via .Nm chattr Fl p Ar prjid or .Nm zfs Cm project Fl p Ar prjid . @@ -740,7 +776,8 @@ when the deferred resilver begins. . .feature org.illumos sha512 no extensible_dataset This feature enables the use of the SHA-512/256 truncated hash algorithm -(FIPS 180-4) for checksum and dedup. +.Pq FIPS 180-4 +for checksum and dedup. The native 64-bit arithmetic of SHA-512 provides an approximate 50% performance boost over SHA-256 on 64-bit hardware and is thus a good minimum-change replacement candidate @@ -756,11 +793,12 @@ This feature enables the use of the Skein hash algorithm for checksum and dedup. Skein is a high-performance secure hash algorithm that was a finalist in the NIST SHA-3 competition. It provides a very high security margin and high performance on 64-bit hardware -(80% faster than SHA-256). +.Pq 80% faster than SHA-256 . This implementation also utilizes the new salted checksumming functionality in ZFS, which means that the checksum is pre-seeded with a -secret 256-bit random key (stored on the pool) before being fed the data -block to be checksummed. +secret 256-bit random key +.Pq stored on the pool +before being fed the data block to be checksummed. Thus the produced checksums are unique to a given pool, preventing hash collision attacks on systems with dedup. .Pp @@ -778,7 +816,9 @@ and never returns back to being . .feature com.delphix spacemap_v2 yes This feature enables the use of the new space map encoding which -consists of two words (instead of one) whenever it is advantageous. +consists of two words +.Pq instead of one +whenever it is advantageous. The new encoding allows space maps to represent large regions of space more efficiently on-disk while also increasing their maximum addressable offset. @@ -872,4 +912,5 @@ are destroyed. .El . .Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr zfs 8 , .Xr zpool 8 |