FreeBSD Man Pages

graid3(8)

NAME

     graid3 -- control utility for RAID3 devices

SYNOPSIS

     graid3 label [-hnrvw] name prov prov prov ...
     graid3 clear [-v] prov ...
     graid3 configure [-adhnrRvwW] name
     graid3 rebuild [-v] name prov
     graid3 insert [-hv] -n number name prov
     graid3 remove [-v] -n number name
     graid3 stop [-fv] name ...
     graid3 list
     graid3 status
     graid3 load
     graid3 unload

DESCRIPTION

     The graid3 utility is used for RAID3 array configuration.	After a device
     is created, all components are detected and configured automatically.
     All operations such as failure detection, stale component detection,
     rebuild of stale components, etc. are also done automatically.  The
     graid3 utility uses on-disk metadata (the provider's last sector) to
     store all needed information.

     The first argument to graid3 indicates an action to be performed:

     label	Create a RAID3 device.	The last given component will contain
		parity data, whilst the others will all contain regular data.
		The number of components must be equal to 3, 5, 9, 17, etc.
		(2^n + 1).

		Additional options include:

		-h  Hardcode providers' names in metadata.

		-n  Turn off autosynchronization of stale components.

		-r  Use parity component for reading in round-robin fashion.
		    Without this option the parity component is not used at
		    all for reading operations when the device is in a com-
		    plete state.  With this option specified random I/O read
		    operations are even 40% faster, but sequential reads are
		    slower.  One cannot use this option if the -w option is
		    also specified.

		-w  Use verify reading feature.  When reading from a device in
		    a complete state, also read data from the parity component
		    and verify the data by comparing XORed regular data with
		    parity data.  If verification fails, an EIO error is
		    returned and the value of the
		    kern.geom.raid3.stat.parity_mismatch sysctl is increased.
		    One cannot use this option if the -r option is also speci-
		    fied.

     clear	Clear metadata on the given providers.

     configure	Configure the given device.

		-n  Turn off autosynchronization of stale components.

		-r  Turn on round-robin reading.

		-R  Turn off round-robin reading.

		-w  Turn on verify reading.

		-W  Turn off verify reading.

     rebuild	Rebuild the given component forcibly.  If autosynchronization
		was not turned off for the given device, this command should
		be unnecessary.

     insert	Add the given component to the existing array, if one of the
		components was removed previously with the remove command or
		if one component is missing and will not be connected again.

		Additional options include:

		-h  Hardcode providers' names in metadata.

     remove	Remove the given component from the given array and clear
		metadata on it.

     stop	Stop the given arrays.

		Additional options include:

		-f  Stop the given array even if it is opened.

     list	See geom(8).

     status	See geom(8).

     load	See geom(8).

     unload	See geom(8).

     Additional options include:

     -v  Be more verbose.

EXIT STATUS

     Exit status is 0 on success, and 1 if the command fails.

EXAMPLES

     Use 3 disks to setup a RAID3 array (with the round-robin reading fea-
     ture).  Create a file system, mount it, then unmount it and stop device:

	   graid3 label -v -r data da0 da1 da2
	   newfs /dev/raid3/data
	   mount /dev/raid3/data /mnt
	   ...
	   umount /mnt
	   graid3 stop data
	   graid3 unload

	   graid3 remove -n 0 data
	   graid3 insert -n 0 data da5

SEE ALSO

     geom(4), geom(8), mount(8), newfs(8), umount(8), vinum(8)

HISTORY

     The graid3 utility appeared in FreeBSD 5.3.

AUTHORS

     Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>

BUGS

     There should be a section with an implementation description.

     Documentation for sysctls kern.geom.raid3.* is missing.

FreeBSD 5.4			August 22, 2004 		   FreeBSD 5.4

SPONSORED LINKS