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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
         | 
      
       
  | 
      
        
        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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 https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.6/modules/zpool_facts_module.html