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This package provides a wrapper for libzfs_core C library.
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libzfs_core is intended to be a stable interface for programmatic
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administration of ZFS.
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This wrapper provides one-to-one wrappers for libzfs_core API functions,
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but the signatures and types are more natural to Python.
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nvlists are wrapped as dictionaries or lists depending on their usage.
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Some parameters have default values depending on typical use for
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increased convenience.
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Enumerations and bit flags become strings and lists of strings in Python.
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Errors are reported as exceptions rather than integer errno-style
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error codes. The wrapper takes care to provide one-to-many mapping
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of the error codes to the exceptions by interpreting a context
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in which the error code is produced.
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Unit tests and automated test for the libzfs_core API are provided
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with this package.
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Please note that the API tests perform lots of ZFS dataset level
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operations and ZFS tries hard to ensure that any modifications
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do reach stable storage. That means that the operations are done
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synchronously and that, for example, disk caches are flushed.
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Thus, the tests can be very slow on real hardware.
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It is recommended to place the default temporary directory or
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a temporary directory specified by, for instance, TMP environment
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variable on a memory backed filesystem.
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Package documentation: http://pyzfs.readthedocs.org
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Package development: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs
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