Feature Flags Overview
libzfs_core
CLI Usability
These are improvements to the command line interface. While the end result is a generally more friendly user interface, getting the desired behavior often required modifications to the core of ZFS.
OpenZFS has a per-pool comment property which can be set with the zpool set command, but can be read even if the pool is not imported, so it is accessible even if the pool cannot be imported.
Size Estimates for zfs send and zfs destroy
This feature enhances OpenZFS's internal space accounting information. This new accounting information is used to provide a -n (dry-run) option for zfs send which can instantly calculate the amount of send stream data a specific zfs send command would generate. It is also used for a -n option for zfs destroy which can instantly calculate the amount of space that would be reclaimed by a specific zfs destroy command.
vdev Information in zpool list
OpenZFS adds a -v option to the zpool list command which shows detailed sizing information about the vdevs in the pool:
$ zpool list -v
NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE EXPANDSZ CAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT
dcenter 5.24T 3.85T 1.39T - 73% 1.00x ONLINE -
mirror 556G 469G 86.7G -
c2t1d0 - - - -
c2t0d0 - - - -
mirror 556G 493G 63.0G -
c2t3d0 - - - -
c2t2d0 - - - -
mirror 556G 493G 62.7G -
c2t5d0 - - - -
c2t4d0 - - - -
mirror 556G 494G 62.5G -
c2t8d0 - - - -
c2t6d0 - - - -
mirror 556G 494G 62.2G -
c2t10d0 - - - -
c2t9d0 - - - -
mirror 556G 494G 61.9G -
c2t12d0 - - - -
c2t11d0 - - - -
mirror 1016G 507G 509G -
c1t1d0 - - - -
c1t5d0 - - - -
mirror 1016G 496G 520G -
c1t3d0 - - - -
c1t4d0 - - - -
zfs send Progress Reporting
OpenZFS introduces a -v option to zfs send which reports per-second information on how much data has been sent, how long it has taken, and how much data remains to be sent.
Arbitrary Snapshot Arguments to zfs snapshot
Performance
Asynchronous Filesystem and Volume Destruction
Destroying a filesystem requires traversing all of its data in order to return its used blocks to the pool's free list. Before this feature the filesystem was not fully removed until all blocks had been reclaimed. If the destroy operation was interrupted by a reboot or power outage the next attempt to import the pool (probably during boot) would need to complete the destroy operation synchronously, possibly delaying a boot for long periods of time.
With asynchronous destruction the filesystem's data is immediately moved to a "to be freed" list, allowing the destroy operation to complete without traversing any of the filesystem's data. A background process reclaims blocks from this "to be freed" list and is capable of resuming this process after reboots without slowing the pool import process.
The new freeing algorithm also has a significant performance improvement when destroying clones. The old algorithm took time proportional to the number of blocks referenced by the clone, even if most of those blocks could not be reclaimed because they were still referenced by the clone's origin. The new algorithm only takes time proportional to the number of blocks unique to the clone.
empty bpobjs?
single copy arc?
George's massive spacemap performance improvments (the set from 2012)?
also 16a4a8074274d2d7cc408589cf6359f4a378c861 and 9eb57f7f3fbb970d4b9b89dcd5ecf543fe2414d5
nop-write?
illumos
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Nov 2012
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FreeBSD
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??
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ZFS on Linux
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Not yet (as of Sept. 13, 2013)
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Mac ZFS
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??
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lz4 compression
synctask rewrite
l2arc compression
arc shouldn't cache freed blocks
Dataset Properties
These are new filesystem, volume, and snapshot properties which can be accessed with the zfs(1) command's get subcommand. See the zfs(1) manpage for your distribution for more details on each of these properties.
Property
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Description
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illumos
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FreeBSD
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ZFS on Linux
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Mac ZFS
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refcompressratio
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The compression ratio acheived for all data referenced by (but not necessarily unique to) a snapshot, filesystem, or volume, expressed as a multiplier.
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Jun 2011
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??
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Aug 2012
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??
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clones
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For snapshots, this property is a comma-separated list of filesystems or volumes which are clones of this snapshot.
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Nov 2011
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??
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Jul 2012
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??
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written
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The amount of referenced space written to this dataset since the previous snapshot.
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Nov 2011
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??
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Jul 2012
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??
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written@<snap>
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The amount of referenced space written to this dataset since the specified snapshot. This is the space referenced by this dataset, but not referenced by the specified snapshot.
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Nov 2011
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??
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Jul 2012
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??
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more props lused lcompressed
77372cb0f35e8d3615ca2e16044f033397e88e21
Not yet ported to ZFSOnLinux (as of Sept. 13, 2013)