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| author | Tim Chase <[email protected]> | 2015-05-14 12:45:56 -0500 |
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| committer | Brian Behlendorf <[email protected]> | 2015-05-15 10:52:46 -0700 |
| commit | b1b85c8772ed28d2c8227e6d32905740817ae2c3 (patch) | |
| tree | e22e9828d267566a36b75db823a3e0a6cad03ee3 /man/man8 | |
| parent | 79065ed5a454d36492a3006fec69f14ddf83a88f (diff) | |
Zdb should be able to open the root dataset
If the pool/dataset command-line argument is specified with a trailing
slash, for example, "tank/", it is interpreted as the root dataset.
Signed-off-by: Tim Chase <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <[email protected]>
Closes #3415
Diffstat (limited to 'man/man8')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/man8/zdb.8 | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man/man8/zdb.8 b/man/man8/zdb.8 index 2bfe9683b..d19e4a39f 100644 --- a/man/man8/zdb.8 +++ b/man/man8/zdb.8 @@ -56,6 +56,11 @@ pool, and is inherently unstable. The precise output of most invocations is not documented, a knowledge of ZFS internals is assumed. .P +If the \fIdataset\fR argument does not contain any \fB/\fR or \fB@\fR +characters, it is interpreted as a pool name. The root dataset can be +specified as \fIpool\fB/\fR (pool name followed by a slash). + +.P When operating on an imported and active pool it is possible, though unlikely, that zdb may interpret inconsistent pool data and behave erratically. |