Fixes a small inaccuracy in the description of snapshot
atomicity
zfs-snapshot(8) appears to contain a small error. The existing
version reads "Snapshots are taken atomically, so that all
snapshots correspond to the same moment in time." Per
zfs_main.c, which in do_snapshot() simply loops over argv, this
does not appear to be correct when multiple snapshots are
specified explicitly on the command line. I believe the intent
of the man page was to say that *recursive* snapshots are all
created atomically.
This proposed change fixes that error. Because the existing
statement may confuse some readers anyway, the commit also also
adds a small amount of general explanatory information that may
be helpful.
The change also adds an introductory sentence that summarizes
what 'zfs snapshot' does in the first place. In that sentence,
the text "different datasets" is intended to indicate that
(again per the code) the same dataset cannot be specified
multiple times on the command line.
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Shawn Bayern <sbayern@law.fsu.edu>
Closes#15857
Use proper names (i.e. zfs-allow and zpool-add) in NAME subsections
of zfs/zpool subcommands instead of current "pretty-printed" ones as
makewhatis utilities (or some implementations of it, namely the one
from mandoc suite used in FreeBSD) look not only at the document title
but also in NAME subsection, adding zfs(8)/zpool(8) to search results
which is not correct. (Common sense and other utilities splitting
subcommands in multiple man pages, e.g. git, do the same.)
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: xtouqh <xtouqh@hotmail.com>
Closes#11086
The recommended practice for `.Os` on FreeBSD is to not specify any
arguments. The correct OS name is used automatically.
Oddly enough, on the Linux distro I tested this on (CentOS 7), the man
pager defaulted to displaying "BSD" as the OS rather than "Linux". To
accommodate this, tack " Linux" back on in an install hook on Linux.
This is much simpler than removing it for FreeBSD when vendored in the
base system.
Reviewed-by: George Melikov <mail@gmelikov.ru>
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Ryan Moeller <ryan@iXsystems.com>
Closes#10760
Most subcommands got their own manpages (e.g. create). Some related
commands grouped into a single manpage and symlinks created (e.g. set,
get, and inherit). I did this when topics were either too short to
warrant their own file or so interrelated that a user would want to
refer between commands in the same file.
Corrected .Sx internal references to .Xr cross refs; lots of .Sx
references from when text was all in zfs.8 needed to be changed to
.Xr zfs-$SUBCOMMAND 8 cross references.
Divided subcommand list in zfs(8) into sections of related
functionality. This required writing new descriptions for some
commands.
Preserved ".Os Linux", `.Os` macro parsing behavior differs between
mandoc from the "BSD" mandoc package (available on Ubuntu) and man
from Ubuntu's man-db package, which calls groff to format the manpages.
Groff handles the `.Os` macro differently and wrongly, defaulting
it to "BSD" in `/usr/share/groff/*/tmac/mdoc/doc-common`, instead of
getting the default from `uname`.
A future set of changes will introduce build-time preprocessing of
manpages for platform-specific documentation and can insert the
correct operating system name.
Added SEE ALSO sections, the newly-divided zfs-*.8 subcommand man
pages needed their own SEE ALSO sections pointing to related
subcommands and, in some cases, documentation from other packages
(e.g. zfs-share.8).
Reviewed-by: Matt Ahrens <matt@delphix.com>
Reviewed-by: Kjeld Schouten <kjeld@schouten-lebbing.nl>
Reviewed-by: Sean Eric Fagan <sef@ixsystems.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Ross Williams <ross@ross-williams.net>
Closes#9559
