diff --git a/example/zfs.nix b/example/zfs.nix
index e344289..2b56bd7 100644
--- a/example/zfs.nix
+++ b/example/zfs.nix
@@ -12,11 +12,16 @@
     zroot = {
       type = "zpool";
       mode = "mirror";
+      rootFsOptions = {
+        compression = "lz4";
+        "com.sun:auto-snapshot" = "false";
+      };
       datasets = [
         {
           type = "zfs_filesystem";
           name = "zfs_fs";
           mountpoint = "/zfs_fs";
+          options."com.sun:auto-snapshot" = "true";
         }
         {
           type = "zfs_filesystem";
diff --git a/tests/zfs.nix b/tests/zfs.nix
index e0c8fab..ebc6b04 100644
--- a/tests/zfs.nix
+++ b/tests/zfs.nix
@@ -5,6 +5,23 @@ makeDiskoTest {
   disko-config = import ../example/zfs.nix;
   extraTestScript = ''
     machine.succeed("test -b /dev/zvol/zroot/zfs_testvolume");
+
+    def assert_property(ds, property, expected_value):
+        out = machine.succeed(f"zfs get -H {property} {ds} -o value").rstrip()
+        assert (
+            out == expected_value
+        ), f"Expected {property}={expected_value} on {ds}, got: {out}"
+
+    assert_property("zroot", "compression", "lz4")
+    assert_property("zroot/zfs_fs", "compression", "lz4")
+    assert_property("zroot", "com.sun:auto-snapshot", "false")
+    assert_property("zroot/zfs_fs", "com.sun:auto-snapshot", "true")
+    assert_property("zroot/zfs_testvolume", "volsize", "10M")
+
+    # FIXME: we cannot mount rootfs yet
+    #machine.succeed("mountpoint /mnt");
+    machine.succeed("mountpoint /mnt/zfs_fs");
+    machine.succeed("mountpoint /mnt/zfs_legacy_fs");
     machine.succeed("mountpoint /mnt/ext4onzfs");
   '';
 }