ZFS API

[K. Macy]

On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 2:44 AM, Ivailo A. Tanusheff <ITanusheff at postbank.bg>
wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I am looking for an API and documentation about programing some actions on
> C/C++ for ZFS management.
> I have found an library -
> /usr/src/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/lib/libzfs/common/libzfs.h but this lacks
> any documentation.
> I do not want to make a huge development and my skills are not great, so I
> need some useful API and documentation.
> Is there such thing available around?
> What I need is to include some snapshot management techniques :)
>
> Regards,
>
> Ivailo Tanusheff
>
>
Solaris' ndmpd snapshots the volumes in question prior to doing a back up.
It isn't what you asked for, but it is an example of other applications
using libzfs. That file works almost unmodified in the (incomplete) FreeBSD
ndmpd port.

https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/blob/master/usr/src/cmd/ndmpd/ndmp/ndmpd_zfs.c


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Cheers.

-K

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