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| author | Shawn Bayern <sbayern@law.fsu.edu> | 2024-02-08 21:06:12 +0000 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2024-02-08 21:06:12 +0000 |
| commit | d0d2733204ea5e4d0f12967cd93c3b9416ed59a3 (patch) | |
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diff --git a/man/man8/zfs-snapshot.8 b/man/man8/zfs-snapshot.8 index 864c65c7002b..a0c164dd02cb 100644 --- a/man/man8/zfs-snapshot.8 +++ b/man/man8/zfs-snapshot.8 @@ -44,13 +44,21 @@ .Ar dataset Ns @ Ns Ar snapname Ns … . .Sh DESCRIPTION -All previous modifications by successful system calls to the file system are -part of the snapshots. -Snapshots are taken atomically, so that all snapshots correspond to the same -moment in time. +Creates a snapshot of a dataset or multiple snapshots of different +datasets. +.Pp +Snapshots are created atomically. +That is, a snapshot is a consistent image of a dataset at a specific +point in time; it includes all modifications to the dataset made by +system calls that have successfully completed before that point in time. +Recursive snapshots created through the +.Fl r +option are all created at the same time. +.Pp .Nm zfs Cm snap can be used as an alias for .Nm zfs Cm snapshot . +.Pp See the .Sx Snapshots section of |