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GNOP (8) | System administration commands and daemons | Unix Manual Pages | :man▋
NAME
gnop - "control utility for NOP GEOM class"
CONTENTS
Synopsis
Description
Sysctl Variables
Exit Status
Examples
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SYNOPSIS
gnop create [-v] [-f failprob] [-o offset] [-s size] [-S secsize] dev ... gnop configure [-v] [-f failprob] prov ... gnop destroy [-fv] prov ... gnop list gnop status gnop load gnop unload
DESCRIPTION
The gnop utility is used for setting up transparent providers on existing ones. Its main purpose is testing other GEOM classes, as it allows forced provider removal and I/O error simulation with a given probability. It is also a good starting point for implementing new GEOM classes. The first argument to gnop indicates an action to be performed: | create | Set up a transparent provider on the given devices. If the operation succeeds, the new provider should appear with name /dev/<dev.nop>. The kernel module geom_nop.ko will be loaded if it is not loaded already. | | configure | Configure existing transparent provider. At the moment it is only used for changing failure probability. The kernel module geom_nop.ko will be loaded if it is not loaded already. | | destroy | Turn off the given transparent providers. | | 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 provider. | | -f failprob | Specifies failure probability in percentage. | | -o offset | Where to begin on the original provider. | | -s size | Size of the transparent provider. | | -S secsize | Sector size of the transparent provider. | | -v | Be more verbose. | |
SYSCTL VARIABLES
The following sysctl(8) variables can be used to control the behavior of the NOP GEOM class. The default value is shown next to each variable. | kern.geom.nop.debug: 0 | | | Debug level of the NOP GEOM class. This can be set to a number between 0 and 2 inclusive. If set to 0 minimal debug information is printed, and if set to 2 the maximum amount of debug information is printed. | |
EXIT STATUS
Exit status is 0 on success, and 1 if the command fails.
EXAMPLES
The following example shows how to create a transparent provider for disk /dev/da0 with 50% failure probability, and how to destroy it.
gnop create -v -f 50 da0
gnop destroy -v da0.nop
SEE ALSO
geom(4), geom(8)
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