Re: filesystem created but no event in history

> Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2022 at 3:52 PM
> From: "Alan Somers" <asomers@freebsd.org>
> To: "Nikos Vassiliadis" <nvass@gmx.com>
> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: filesystem created but no event in history
>
> On Thu, Nov 24, 2022 at 4:00 AM Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@gmx.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > There was a new fs (danae/ROOT/12.4-RC2_2022-11-24_105735) created by freebsd-update
> >
> >
> > root@danae:~ # zfs list -t all -r -o name,type,creation,origin danae | sed -n '1p; /105735/p'
> > NAME                                                           TYPE        CREATION               ORIGIN
> > danae/ROOT/12.4-RC2_2022-11-24_105735                          filesystem  Thu Nov 24 10:57 2022  danae/ROOT/default@2022-11-24-10:57:35-0
> > danae/ROOT/12.4-RC2_2022-11-24_105735@2022-11-24_11.10.48--1d  snapshot    Thu Nov 24 11:10 2022  -
> > danae/ROOT/12.4-RC2_2022-11-24_105735@2022-11-24_11.10.52--1d  snapshot    Thu Nov 24 11:10 2022  -
> > root@danae:~ # zfs list danae/ROOT/default@2022-11-24-10:57:35-0
> > NAME                                       USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
> > danae/ROOT/default@2022-11-24-10:57:35-0  2.82M      -  4.97G  -
> > root@danae:~ #
> >
> >
> > I would expect that this event would be recorded in the pool's history but there is nothing there:
> > root@danae:~ # zpool history danae | tail -20
> > 2022-11-24.00:00:05 zfs snapshot -r danae@2022-11-24_00.00.00--1m
> > 2022-11-24.00:01:00 zfs destroy danae/ROOT/default@2022-10-24_00.00.00--1m
> > 2022-11-24.00:01:00 zfs destroy danae/ROOT@2022-10-24_00.00.00--1m
> > 2022-11-24.00:01:01 zfs destroy danae/tmp@2022-10-24_00.00.00--1m
> > 2022-11-24.00:01:01 zfs destroy danae/usr/home@2022-10-24_00.00.00--1m
> > 2022-11-24.00:01:01 zfs destroy danae/usr/ports@2022-10-24_00.00.00--1m
> > 2022-11-24.00:01:01 zfs destroy danae/usr/src@2022-10-24_00.00.00--1m
> > 2022-11-24.00:01:01 zfs destroy danae/usr@2022-10-24_00.00.00--1m
> > 2022-11-24.00:01:01 zfs destroy danae/var/audit@2022-10-24_00.00.00--1m
> > 2022-11-24.00:01:01 zfs destroy danae/var/crash@2022-10-24_00.00.00--1m
> > 2022-11-24.00:01:01 zfs destroy danae/var/log@2022-10-24_00.00.00--1m
> > 2022-11-24.00:01:01 zfs destroy danae/var/mail@2022-10-24_00.00.00--1m
> > 2022-11-24.00:01:01 zfs destroy danae/var/tmp@2022-10-24_00.00.00--1m
> > 2022-11-24.00:01:01 zfs destroy danae/var@2022-10-24_00.00.00--1m
> > 2022-11-24.00:01:06 zfs destroy danae@2022-10-24_00.00.00--1m
> > 2022-11-24.11:10:52 zfs snapshot -r danae@2022-11-24_11.10.48--1d
> > 2022-11-24.11:10:56 zfs snapshot -r danae@2022-11-24_11.10.52--1d
> > 2022-11-24.12:41:55 zfs create danae/nikos000
> > 2022-11-24.12:42:17 zfs rename danae/nikos000 danae/nikos001
> >
> > I thought that the pool's history contains everything.
> > Really confused, thanks in advance for your help
> > Nikos
> 
> Try "zpool history -i".
> 
> 

Thanks a lot Alan!

So bectl creates a snapshot and clones it to a new fs but these actions are considered internal. What do we really mean internal?