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39.Dd October 3, 2016
40.Dt CCDCONFIG 8
41.Os
42.Sh NAME
43.Nm ccdconfig
44.Nd configuration utility for the concatenated disk driver
45.Sh SYNOPSIS
46.Nm
47.Op Fl cv
48.Ar ccd
49.Ar ileave
50.Op Ar flags
51.Ar dev ...
52.Nm
53.Fl C
54.Op Fl v
55.Op Fl f Ar config_file
56.Nm
57.Fl u
58.Op Fl v
59.Ar ccd ...
60.Nm
61.Fl U
62.Op Fl v
63.Op Fl f Ar config_file
64.Nm
65.Fl g
66.Op Ar ccd ...
67.Sh DESCRIPTION
68The
69.Nm
70utility is used to dynamically configure and unconfigure concatenated disk
71devices, or ccds.
72For more information about the ccd, see
73.Xr ccd 4 .
74.Pp
75The options are as follows:
76.Bl -tag -width indent
77.It Fl c
78Configure a ccd.
79This is the default behavior of
80.Nm .
81.It Fl C
82Configure all ccd devices listed in the ccd configuration file.
83.It Fl f Ar config_file
84When configuring or unconfiguring all devices, read the file
85.Pa config_file
86instead of the default
87.Pa /etc/ccd.conf .
88.It Fl g
89Dump the current ccd configuration in a format suitable for use as the
90ccd configuration file.
91If no arguments are specified, every configured
92ccd is dumped.
93Otherwise, the configuration of each listed ccd is dumped.
94.It Fl u
95Unconfigure a ccd.
96.It Fl U
97Unconfigure all ccd devices listed the ccd configuration file.
98.It Fl v
99Cause
100.Nm
101to be verbose.
102.El
103.Pp
104A ccd is described on the command line and in the ccd configuration
105file by the name of the ccd, the interleave factor, the ccd configuration
106flags, and a list of one or more devices.
107The flags may be represented
108as a decimal number, a hexadecimal number, a comma-separated list
109of strings, or the word
110.Dq none .
111The flags are as follows:
112.Bd -literal -offset indent
113CCDF_UNIFORM	0x02		Use uniform interleave
114CCDF_MIRROR	0x04		Support mirroring
115CCDF_NO_OFFSET	0x08		Do not use an offset
116CCDF_LINUX	0x0A		Linux md(4) compatibility
117.Ed
118.Pp
119The format in the
120configuration file appears exactly as if it were entered on the command line.
121Note that on the command line and in the configuration file, the
122.Pa flags
123argument is optional.
124.Bd -literal -offset indent
125#
126# /etc/ccd.conf
127# Configuration file for concatenated disk devices
128#
129
130# ccd           ileave  flags   component devices
131ccd0            16      none    /dev/da2s1 /dev/da3s1
132.Ed
133.Pp
134The component devices need to name partitions of type
135.Li FS_BSDFFS
136(or
137.Dq 4.2BSD
138as shown by
139.Xr disklabel 8 ) .
140.Pp
141If you want to use the
142.Tn Linux
143.Xr md 4
144compatibility mode, please be sure
145to read the notes in
146.Xr ccd 4 .
147.Sh FILES
148.Bl -tag -width /etc/ccd.conf -compact
149.It Pa /etc/ccd.conf
150default ccd configuration file
151.El
152.Sh EXAMPLES
153A number of
154.Nm
155examples are shown below.
156The arguments passed
157to
158.Nm
159are exactly the same as you might place in the
160.Pa /etc/ccd.conf
161configuration file.
162The first example creates a 4-disk stripe out of
163four scsi disk partitions.
164The stripe uses a 64 sector interleave.
165The second example is an example of a complex stripe/mirror combination.
166It reads as a two disk stripe of da4 and da5 which is mirrored
167to a two disk stripe of da6 and da7.
168The last example is a simple
169mirror.
170The second slice of /dev/da8 is mirrored with the third slice of /dev/da9
171and assigned to ccd0.
172.Bd -literal
173# ccdconfig ccd0 64 none /dev/da0s1 /dev/da1s1 /dev/da2s1 /dev/da3s1
174# ccdconfig ccd0 128 CCDF_MIRROR /dev/da4 /dev/da5 /dev/da6 /dev/da7
175# ccdconfig ccd0 128 CCDF_MIRROR /dev/da8s2 /dev/da9s3
176.Ed
177.Pp
178The following are matching commands in
179.Tn Linux
180and
181.Fx
182to create a RAID-0 in
183.Tn Linux
184and read it from
185.Fx .
186.Bd -literal
187# Create a RAID-0 on Linux:
188mdadm --create --chunk=32 --level=0 --raid-devices=2 /dev/md0 \\
189   /dev/hda1 /dev/hdb1
190# Make the RAID-0 just created available on FreeBSD:
191ccdconfig -c /dev/ccd0 32 linux /dev/ada0s1 /dev/ada0s2
192.Ed
193.Pp
194When you create a new ccd disk you generally want to
195.Xr fdisk 8
196and
197.Xr disklabel 8
198it before doing anything else.
199Once you create the initial label you can
200edit it, adding additional partitions.
201The label itself takes up the first
20216 sectors of the ccd disk.
203If all you are doing is creating file systems
204with newfs, you do not have to worry about this as newfs will skip the
205label area.
206However, if you intend to
207.Xr dd 1
208to or from a ccd partition it is usually a good idea to construct the
209partition such that it does not overlap the label area.
210For example, if
211you have A ccd disk with 10000 sectors you might create a 'd' partition
212with offset 16 and size 9984.
213.Bd -literal
214# disklabel ccd0 > /tmp/disklabel.ccd0
215# disklabel -Rr ccd0 /tmp/disklabel.ccd0
216# disklabel -e ccd0
217.Ed
218.Pp
219The disklabeling of a ccd disk is usually a one-time affair.
220If you reboot the machine and reconfigure the ccd disk,
221the disklabel you
222had created before will still be there and not require reinitialization.
223Beware that changing any ccd parameters: interleave, flags, or the
224device list making up the ccd disk, will usually destroy any prior
225data on that ccd disk.
226If this occurs it is usually a good idea to
227reinitialize the label before [re]constructing your ccd disk.
228.Sh RECOVERY
229An error on a ccd disk is usually unrecoverable unless you are using the
230mirroring option.
231But mirroring has its own perils: It assumes that
232both copies of the data at any given sector are the same.
233This holds true
234until a write error occurs or until you replace either side of the mirror.
235This is a poor-man's mirroring implementation.
236It works well enough that if
237you begin to get disk errors you should be able to backup the ccd disk,
238replace the broken hardware, and then regenerate the ccd disk.
239If you need
240more than this you should look into external hardware RAID SCSI boxes,
241RAID controllers (see GENERIC),
242or software RAID systems such as
243.Xr geom 8
244and
245.Xr gvinum 8 .
246.Sh SEE ALSO
247.Xr dd 1 ,
248.Xr ccd 4 ,
249.Xr disklabel 8 ,
250.Xr fdisk 8 ,
251.Xr gvinum 8 ,
252.Xr rc 8
253.Sh HISTORY
254The
255.Nm
256utility first appeared in
257.Nx 1.1 .
258.Sh BUGS
259The initial disklabel returned by
260.Xr ccd 4
261specifies only 3 partitions.
262One needs to change the number of partitions to 8 using
263.Dq Nm disklabel Fl e
264to get the usual
265.Bx
266expectations.
267