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GSTRIPE(8)		  BSD System Manager's Manual		    GSTRIPE(8)

NAME
     gstripe — control utility for striped devices

SYNOPSIS
     gstripe create [-v] [-s stripesize] name prov prov ...
     gstripe destroy [-fv] name ...
     gstripe label [-hv] [-s stripesize] name prov prov ...
     gstripe stop [-fv] name ...
     gstripe clear [-v] prov ...
     gstripe dump prov ...
     gstripe list
     gstripe status
     gstripe load
     gstripe unload

DESCRIPTION
     The gstripe utility is used for setting up a stripe on two or more disks.
     The striped device can be configured using two different methods:
     “manual” or “automatic”.  When using the “manual” method, no metadata are
     stored on the devices, so the striped device has to be configured by hand
     every time it is needed.  The “automatic” method uses on-disk metadata to
     detect devices.  Once devices are labeled, they will be automatically
     detected and configured.

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

     create   Set up a striped device from the given devices with specified
	      name.  This is the “manual” method and the stripe will not exist
	      after a reboot (see DESCRIPTION above).  The kernel module
	      geom_stripe.ko will be loaded if it is not loaded already.

     label    Set up a striped device from the given devices with the speci‐
	      fied name.  This is the “automatic” method, where metadata are
	      stored in every device's last sector.  The kernel module
	      geom_stripe.ko will be loaded if it is not loaded already.

     stop     Turn off an existing striped device by its name.	This command
	      does not touch on-disk metadata!

     destroy  Same as stop.

     clear    Clear metadata on the given devices.

     dump     Dump metadata stored on the given devices.

     list     See geom(8).

     status   See geom(8).

     load     See geom(8).

     unload   See geom(8).

     Additional options:

     -f		    Force the removal of the specified striped device.

     -h		    Hardcode providers' names in metadata.

     -s stripesize  Specifies size of stripe block in bytes.  The stripesize
		    must be a multiple of the largest sector size of all the
		    providers.

     -v		    Be more verbose.

SYSCTL VARIABLES
     The following sysctl(8) variables can be used to control the behavior of
     the STRIPE GEOM class.  The default value is shown next to each variable.

     kern.geom.stripe.debug: 0
	     Debug level of the STRIPE GEOM class.  This can be set to a num‐
	     ber between 0 and 3 inclusive.  If set to 0 minimal debug infor‐
	     mation is printed, and if set to 3 the maximum amount of debug
	     information is printed.

     kern.geom.stripe.fast: 0
	     If set to a non-zero value enable “fast mode” instead of the nor‐
	     mal “economic mode”.  Compared to “economic mode”, “fast mode”
	     uses more memory, but it is much faster for smaller stripe sizes.
	     If enough memory cannot be allocated, STRIPE will fall back to
	     “economic mode”.

     kern.geom.stripe.maxmem: 13107200
	     Maximum amount of memory that can be consumed by “fast mode” (in
	     bytes).  This sysctl(8) variable is read-only and can only be set
	     as a tunable in loader.conf(5).

     kern.geom.stripe.fast_failed
	     A count of how many times “fast mode” has failed due to an insuf‐
	     ficient amount of memory.	If this value is large, you should
	     consider increasing the kern.geom.stripe.maxmem value.

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

EXAMPLES
     The following example shows how to set up a striped device from four
     disks with a 128KB stripe size for automatic configuration, create a file
     system on it, and mount it:

	   gstripe label -v -s 131072 data /dev/da0 /dev/da1 /dev/da2 /dev/da3
	   newfs /dev/stripe/data
	   mount /dev/stripe/data /mnt
	   [...]
	   umount /mnt
	   gstripe stop data
	   gstripe unload

COMPATIBILITY
     The gstripe interleave is in number of bytes, unlike ccdconfig(8) and
     atacontrol(8) which use the number of sectors.  A ccdconfig(8) ileave of
     ‘128’ is 64 KB (128 512B sectors).	 The same stripe interleave would be
     specified as ‘65536’ for gstripe.

SEE ALSO
     geom(4), loader.conf(5), atacontrol(8), ccdconfig(8), geom(8), mount(8),
     newfs(8), sysctl(8), umount(8), vinum(8)

HISTORY
     The gstripe utility appeared in FreeBSD 5.3.

AUTHORS
     Pawel Jakub Dawidek ⟨pjd@FreeBSD.org⟩

BSD				 May 21, 2004				   BSD
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