zdb —
display zpool debugging and consistency
  information
  
    zdb | 
    [ -AbcdDFGhikLMPsvX ]
      []
      [-I
      inflight I/Os ]
      [-o
      var=value ]...
      [-t
      txg ]
      [-U
      cache ]
      [-x
      dumpdir ]
      [] | 
  
  
    zdb | 
    [ -AdiPv ]
      []
      [-U
      cache ]
      dataset
      [object ... ] | 
  
  
    zdb | 
    -E
      [-A ]
      word0:word1:...:word15 | 
  
  
    zdb | 
    -m
      [-AFLPX ]
      []
      [-t
      txg ]
      [-U
      cache ]
      poolname
      [] | 
  
  
    zdb | 
    -R
      [-A ]
      []
      [-U
      cache ]
      poolname
      vdev:offset:size[:flags ] | 
  
  
    zdb | 
    -S
      [-AP ]
      []
      [-U
      cache ]
      poolname | 
  
The 
zdb utility displays information about a
  ZFS pool useful for debugging and performs some amount of consistency
  checking. It is a not a general purpose tool and options (and facilities) may
  change. This is neither a 
fsck(1M) nor an
  
fsdb(1M) utility.
The output of this command in general reflects the on-disk structure of a ZFS
  pool, and is inherently unstable. The precise output of most invocations is
  not documented, a knowledge of ZFS internals is assumed.
If the 
dataset argument does not contain any
  “
/” or
  “
@” characters, it is interpreted
  as a pool name. The root dataset can be specified as
  
pool/ (pool name followed by a slash).
When operating on an imported and active pool it is possible, though unlikely,
  that zdb may interpret inconsistent pool data and behave erratically.
Display options:
  -  
 
  -  
 
  -b 
  - Display statistics regarding the number, size (logical, physical and
      allocated) and deduplication of blocks.
 
  -  
 
  -  
 
  -c 
  - Verify the checksum of all metadata blocks while printing block statistics
      (see 
-b).
    
    If specified multiple times, verify the checksums of all blocks. 
  -  
 
  -  
 
  -C 
  - Display information about the configuration. If specified with no other
      options, instead display information about the cache file
      (/etc/zfs/zpool.cache). To specify the
      cache file to display, see 
-U.
    
    If specified multiple times, and a pool name is also specified display both
      the cached configuration and the on-disk configuration. If specified
      multiple times with -e also display the
      configuration that would be used were the pool to be imported. 
  -  
 
  -  
 
  -d 
  - Display information about datasets. Specified once, displays basic dataset
      information: ID, create transaction, size, and object count.
    
    If specified multiple times provides greater and greater verbosity.
    
    If object IDs are specified, display information about those specific
      objects only.
 
  -  
 
  -  
 
  -D 
  - Display deduplication statistics, including the deduplication ratio
      (dedup), compression ratio
      (compress), inflation due to the zfs copies
      property (copies), and an overall effective
      ratio (dedup *
      compress /
      copies).
 
  -  
 
  -  
 
  -DD 
  - Display a histogram of deduplication statistics, showing the allocated
      (physically present on disk) and referenced (logically referenced in the
      pool) block counts and sizes by reference count.
 
  -  
 
  -  
 
  -DDD 
  - Display the statistics independently for each deduplication table.
 
  -  
 
  -  
 
  -DDDD 
  - Dump the contents of the deduplication tables describing duplicate
    blocks.
 
  -  
 
  -  
 
  -DDDDD 
  - Also dump the contents of the deduplication tables describing unique
      blocks.
 
  -  
 
  -  
 
  -E
    word0:word1:...:word15 
  - Decode and display block from an embedded block pointer specified by the
      word arguments.
 
  -  
 
  -  
 
  -h 
  - Display pool history similar to 
zpool
      history, but include internal changes,
      transaction, and dataset information. 
  -  
 
  -  
 
  -i 
  - Display information about intent log (ZIL) entries relating to each
      dataset. If specified multiple times, display counts of each intent log
      transaction type.
 
  -  
 
  -  
 
  -k 
  - Examine the checkpointed state of the pool. Note, the on disk format of
      the pool is not reverted to the checkpointed state.
 
  -  
 
  -  
 
  -l
    device 
  - Read the vdev labels from the specified device.
      
zdb
      -l will return 0 if valid label was
      found, 1 if error occurred, and 2 if no valid labels were found.
    
    If the -q option is also specified, don't
      print the labels.
    
    If the -u option is also specified, also
      display the uberblocks on this device. 
  -  
 
  -  
 
  -L 
  - Disable leak detection and the loading of space maps. By default,
      
zdb verifies that all non-free blocks
      are referenced, which can be very expensive. 
  -  
 
  -  
 
  -m 
  - Display the offset, spacemap, and free space of each metaslab.
 
  -  
 
  -  
 
  -mm 
  - Also display information about the on-disk free space histogram associated
      with each metaslab.
 
  -  
 
  -  
 
  -mmm 
  - Display the maximum contiguous free space, the in-core free space
      histogram, and the percentage of free space in each space map.
 
  -  
 
  -  
 
  -mmmm 
  - Display every spacemap record.
 
  -  
 
  -  
 
  -M 
  - Display the offset, spacemap, and free space of each metaslab.
 
  -  
 
  -  
 
  -MM 
  - Also display information about the maximum contiguous free space and the
      percentage of free space in each space map.
 
  -  
 
  -  
 
  -MMM 
  - Display every spacemap record.
 
  -  
 
  -  
 
  -O
    dataset path 
  - Look up the specified path inside of the
      dataset and display its metadata and
      indirect blocks. Specified path must be
      relative to the root of dataset. This
      option can be combined with 
-v for
      increasing verbosity. 
  -  
 
  -  
 
  -R
    poolname
    vdev:offset:size[:flags
] 
  - Read and display a block from the specified device. By default the block
      is displayed as a hex dump, but see the description of the
      r flag, below.
    
    The block is specified in terms of a colon-separated tuple
      vdev (an integer vdev identifier)
      offset (the offset within the vdev)
      size (the size of the block to read) and,
      optionally, flags (a set of flags,
      described below).
    
    
      - b
        offset
 
      - Print block pointer
 
      - d
 
      - Decompress the block
 
      - e
 
      - Byte swap the block
 
      - g
 
      - Dump gang block header
 
      - i
 
      - Dump indirect block
 
      - r
 
      - Dump raw uninterpreted block data
 
    
   
  -  
 
  -  
 
  -s 
  - Report statistics on 
zdb I/O. Display
      operation counts, bandwidth, and error counts of I/O to the pool from
      zdb. 
  -  
 
  -  
 
  -S 
  - Simulate the effects of deduplication, constructing a DDT and then display
      that DDT as with 
-DD. 
  -  
 
  -  
 
  -u 
  - Display the current uberblock.
 
Other options:
  -  
 
  -  
 
  -A 
  - Do not abort should any assertion fail.
 
  -  
 
  -  
 
  -AA 
  - Enable panic recovery, certain errors which would otherwise be fatal are
      demoted to warnings.
 
  -  
 
  -  
 
  -AAA 
  - Do not abort if asserts fail and also enable panic recovery.
 
  -  
 
  -  
 
  -e
    [-p
    path ...
] 
  - Operate on an exported pool, not present in
      /etc/zfs/zpool.cache. The
      
-p flag specifies the path under which
      devices are to be searched. 
  -  
 
  -  
 
  -x
    dumpdir 
  - All blocks accessed will be copied to files in the specified directory.
      The blocks will be placed in sparse files whose name is the same as that
      of the file or device read. 
zdb can be
      then run on the generated files. Note that the
      -bbc flags are sufficient to access
      (and thus copy) all metadata on the pool. 
  -  
 
  -  
 
  -F 
  - Attempt to make an unreadable pool readable by trying progressively older
      transactions.
 
  -  
 
  -  
 
  -G 
  - Dump the contents of the zfs_dbgmsg buffer before exiting
      
zdb. zfs_dbgmsg is a buffer used by ZFS
      to dump advanced debug information. 
  -  
 
  -  
 
  -I
    inflight I/Os 
  - Limit the number of outstanding checksum I/Os to the specified value. The
      default value is 200. This option affects the performance of the
      
-c option. 
  -  
 
  -  
 
  -o
    var=value
    ... 
  - Set the given global libzpool variable to the provided value. The value
      must be an unsigned 32-bit integer. Currently only little-endian systems
      are supported to avoid accidentally setting the high 32 bits of 64-bit
      variables.
 
  -  
 
  -  
 
  -P 
  - Print numbers in an unscaled form more amenable to parsing, eg. 1000000
      rather than 1M.
 
  -  
 
  -  
 
  -t
    transaction 
  - Specify the highest transaction to use when searching for uberblocks. See
      also the 
-u and
      -l options for a means to see the
      available uberblocks and their associated transaction numbers. 
  -  
 
  -  
 
  -U
    cachefile 
  - Use a cache file other than
      /etc/zfs/zpool.cache.
 
  -  
 
  -  
 
  -v 
  - Enable verbosity. Specify multiple times for increased verbosity.
 
  -  
 
  -  
 
  -V 
  - Attempt verbatim import. This mimics the behavior of the kernel when
      loading a pool from a cachefile. Only usable with
      
-e. 
  -  
 
  -  
 
  -X 
  - Attempt “extreme” transaction rewind, that is attempt the
      same recovery as 
-F but read
      transactions otherwise deemed too old. 
Specifying a display option more than once enables verbosity for only that
  option, with more occurrences enabling more verbosity.
If no options are specified, all information about the named pool will be
  displayed at default verbosity.
  -  
 
  -  
 
  - Example 1 Display the configuration of
    imported pool rpool
 
  - 
    
    
# zdb -C rpool 
 
MOS Configuration: 
        version: 28 
        name: 'rpool' 
 ...
    
     
   
  -  
 
  -  
 
  - Example 2 Display basic dataset information
    about rpool
 
  - 
    
    
    
# zdb -d rpool 
Dataset mos [META], ID 0, cr_txg 4, 26.9M, 1051 objects 
Dataset rpool/swap [ZVOL], ID 59, cr_txg 356, 486M, 2 objects 
 ...
    
     
   
  -  
 
  -  
 
  - Example 3 Display basic information about
    object 0 in rpool/export/home
 
  - 
    
    
    
# zdb -d rpool/export/home 0 
Dataset rpool/export/home [ZPL], ID 137, cr_txg 1546, 32K, 8 objects 
 
    Object  lvl   iblk   dblk  dsize  lsize   %full  type 
         0    7    16K    16K  15.0K    16K   25.00  DMU dnode
    
     
   
  -  
 
  -  
 
  - Example 4 Display the predicted effect of
    enabling deduplication on rpool
 
  - 
    
    
    
# zdb -S rpool 
Simulated DDT histogram: 
 
bucket              allocated                       referenced 
______   ______________________________   ______________________________ 
refcnt   blocks   LSIZE   PSIZE   DSIZE   blocks   LSIZE   PSIZE   DSIZE 
------   ------   -----   -----   -----   ------   -----   -----   ----- 
     1     694K   27.1G   15.0G   15.0G     694K   27.1G   15.0G   15.0G 
     2    35.0K   1.33G    699M    699M    74.7K   2.79G   1.45G   1.45G 
 ... 
dedup = 1.11, compress = 1.80, copies = 1.00, dedup * compress / copies = 2.00
    
     
   
zfs(1M),
  
zpool(1M)