NAME¶

zfs-diff — show difference between ZFS snapshots

SYNOPSIS¶

DESCRIPTION¶

Display the difference between a snapshot of a given filesystem and another snapshot of that filesystem from a later time or the current contents of the filesystem. The first column is a character indicating the type of change, the other columns indicate pathname, new pathname (in case of rename), change in link count, and optionally file type and/or change time. The types of change are:

-F

Display an indication of the type of file, in a manner similar to the -F option of ls(1).

B

Block device

C

Character device

/

Directory

>

Door

|

Named pipe

@

Symbolic link

P

Event port

=

Socket

F

Regular file

-H

Give more parsable tab-separated output, without header lines and without arrows.

-t

Display the path's inode change time as the first column of output.

-h

Do not \0ooo-escape non-ASCII paths.

EXAMPLES¶

# zfs diff -F tank/test@before tank/test
M       /       /tank/test/
M       F       /tank/test/linked      (+1)
R       F       /tank/test/oldname -> /tank/test/newname
-       F       /tank/test/deleted
+       F       /tank/test/created
M       F       /tank/test/modified

SEE ALSO¶

zfs-snapshot(8)