Organize and label your snapshots with helpful “notes”! :information_source: Did you know that you can tag your ZFS snapshots with “notes” and “comments”? This is possible thanks to a useful, yet often overlooked feature called “User Properties”. As long as you follow the base:name format, you c…

I don’t know who danb35 is, but his testimonial is right on target. :wink:

Organize and label your snapshots with helpful "notes"!

winnielinnie October 4, 2025, 6:36pm 3

Because this feature request will not be implemented, at least you can use the command-line method.

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