The default output of
zfs listis to not list snapshots. To see them, you must either add-t snapshotor-t all. Using-rwill not display them either.The speed of doing deep directory searches has reportedly been improved significantly.
Now in addition to raidz2, you have an alternative of raidz3 as well. Yes, three disk parity sets.
There is now a read-only pool
importoption.Sometimes, when an exported pool has been damaged or corrupted, it may still be possible to import it to recover data, using the following command:
zpool import -o readonly=on poolname
If you have created a pool with a separate log device (IE on an SSD), the pool would not be importable if the device failed. In Solaris 11, it is now possible to force import with
-m.If you have forgotten the name of a pool that you need, but you are sure of one of the device paths in the pool, you can use the
-doption, thus:zpool import -d /dev/dsk/c5t4d3 [optional-poolname-override...