zpool_facts - Gather facts about ZFS pools.

New in version 2.3.

Synopsis

  • Gather facts from ZFS pool properties.

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
name
ZFS pool name.

aliases: pool, zpool
parsable
bool
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Specifies if property values should be displayed in machine friendly format.
properties Default:
"all"
Specifies which dataset properties should be queried in comma-separated format. For more information about dataset properties, check zpool(1M) man page.

aliases: props

Examples

# Gather facts about ZFS pool rpool
- zpool_facts: pool=rpool

# Gather space usage about all imported ZFS pools
- zpool_facts: properties='free,size'

- debug: msg='ZFS pool {{ item.name }} has {{ item.free }} free space out of {{ item.size }}.'
  with_items: '{{ ansible_zfs_pools }}'

Returned Facts

Facts returned by this module are added/updated in the hostvars host facts and can be referenced by name just like any other host fact. They do not need to be registered in order to use them.

Fact Returned Description
ansible_zfs_pools
string
 always
ZFS pool facts

Sample:
{'allocated': '3.46G', 'altroot': '-', 'autoexpand': 'off', 'autoreplace': 'off', 'bootfs': 'rpool/ROOT/openindiana', 'cachefile': '-', 'capacity': '6%', 'comment': '-', 'dedupditto': '0', 'dedupratio': '1.00x', 'delegation': 'on', 'expandsize': '-', 'failmode': 'wait', 'feature@async_destroy': 'enabled', 'feature@bookmarks': 'enabled', 'feature@edonr': 'enabled', 'feature@embedded_data': 'active', 'feature@empty_bpobj': 'active', 'feature@enabled_txg': 'active', 'feature@extensible_dataset': 'enabled', 'feature@filesystem_limits': 'enabled', 'feature@hole_birth': 'active', 'feature@large_blocks': 'enabled', 'feature@lz4_compress': 'active', 'feature@multi_vdev_crash_dump': 'enabled', 'feature@sha512': 'enabled', 'feature@skein': 'enabled', 'feature@spacemap_histogram': 'active', 'fragmentation': '3%', 'free': '46.3G', 'freeing': '0', 'guid': '15729052870819522408', 'health': 'ONLINE', 'leaked': '0', 'listsnapshots': 'off', 'name': 'rpool', 'readonly': 'off', 'size': '49.8G', 'version': '-'}


Return Values

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

Key Returned Description
name
string
 always
ZFS pool name

Sample:
rpool
parsable
boolean
 if 'parsable' is set to True
if parsable output should be provided in machine friendly format.

Sample:
True


Status

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

Maintenance

This module is flagged as community which means that it is maintained by the Ansible Community. See Module Maintenance & Support for more info.

For a list of other modules that are also maintained by the Ansible Community, see here.

Author

  • Adam Števko (@xen0l)

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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.6/modules/zpool_facts_module.html