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31.Dd October 3, 2016
32.Dt CCDCONFIG 8
33.Os
34.Sh NAME
35.Nm ccdconfig
36.Nd configuration utility for the concatenated disk driver
37.Sh SYNOPSIS
38.Nm
39.Op Fl cv
40.Ar ccd
41.Ar ileave
42.Op Ar flags
43.Ar dev ...
44.Nm
45.Fl C
46.Op Fl v
47.Op Fl f Ar config_file
48.Nm
49.Fl u
50.Op Fl v
51.Ar ccd ...
52.Nm
53.Fl U
54.Op Fl v
55.Op Fl f Ar config_file
56.Nm
57.Fl g
58.Op Ar ccd ...
59.Sh DESCRIPTION
60The
61.Nm
62utility is used to dynamically configure and unconfigure concatenated disk
63devices, or ccds.
64For more information about the ccd, see
65.Xr ccd 4 .
66.Pp
67The options are as follows:
68.Bl -tag -width indent
69.It Fl c
70Configure a ccd.
71This is the default behavior of
72.Nm .
73.It Fl C
74Configure all ccd devices listed in the ccd configuration file.
75.It Fl f Ar config_file
76When configuring or unconfiguring all devices, read the file
77.Pa config_file
78instead of the default
79.Pa /etc/ccd.conf .
80.It Fl g
81Dump the current ccd configuration in a format suitable for use as the
82ccd configuration file.
83If no arguments are specified, every configured
84ccd is dumped.
85Otherwise, the configuration of each listed ccd is dumped.
86.It Fl u
87Unconfigure a ccd.
88.It Fl U
89Unconfigure all ccd devices listed the ccd configuration file.
90.It Fl v
91Cause
92.Nm
93to be verbose.
94.El
95.Pp
96A ccd is described on the command line and in the ccd configuration
97file by the name of the ccd, the interleave factor, the ccd configuration
98flags, and a list of one or more devices.
99The flags may be represented
100as a decimal number, a hexadecimal number, a comma-separated list
101of strings, or the word
102.Dq none .
103The flags are as follows:
104.Bd -literal -offset indent
105CCDF_UNIFORM	0x02		Use uniform interleave
106CCDF_MIRROR	0x04		Support mirroring
107CCDF_NO_OFFSET	0x08		Do not use an offset
108CCDF_LINUX	0x0A		Linux md(4) compatibility
109.Ed
110.Pp
111The format in the
112configuration file appears exactly as if it were entered on the command line.
113Note that on the command line and in the configuration file, the
114.Pa flags
115argument is optional.
116.Bd -literal -offset indent
117#
118# /etc/ccd.conf
119# Configuration file for concatenated disk devices
120#
121
122# ccd           ileave  flags   component devices
123ccd0            16      none    /dev/da2s1 /dev/da3s1
124.Ed
125.Pp
126The component devices need to name partitions of type
127.Li FS_BSDFFS
128(or
129.Dq 4.2BSD
130as shown by
131.Xr disklabel 8 ) .
132.Pp
133If you want to use the
134.Tn Linux
135.Xr md 4
136compatibility mode, please be sure
137to read the notes in
138.Xr ccd 4 .
139.Sh FILES
140.Bl -tag -width /etc/ccd.conf -compact
141.It Pa /etc/ccd.conf
142default ccd configuration file
143.El
144.Sh EXAMPLES
145A number of
146.Nm
147examples are shown below.
148The arguments passed
149to
150.Nm
151are exactly the same as you might place in the
152.Pa /etc/ccd.conf
153configuration file.
154The first example creates a 4-disk stripe out of
155four scsi disk partitions.
156The stripe uses a 64 sector interleave.
157The second example is an example of a complex stripe/mirror combination.
158It reads as a two disk stripe of da4 and da5 which is mirrored
159to a two disk stripe of da6 and da7.
160The last example is a simple
161mirror.
162The second slice of /dev/da8 is mirrored with the third slice of /dev/da9
163and assigned to ccd0.
164.Bd -literal
165# ccdconfig ccd0 64 none /dev/da0s1 /dev/da1s1 /dev/da2s1 /dev/da3s1
166# ccdconfig ccd0 128 CCDF_MIRROR /dev/da4 /dev/da5 /dev/da6 /dev/da7
167# ccdconfig ccd0 128 CCDF_MIRROR /dev/da8s2 /dev/da9s3
168.Ed
169.Pp
170The following are matching commands in
171.Tn Linux
172and
173.Fx
174to create a RAID-0 in
175.Tn Linux
176and read it from
177.Fx .
178.Bd -literal
179# Create a RAID-0 on Linux:
180mdadm --create --chunk=32 --level=0 --raid-devices=2 /dev/md0 \\
181   /dev/hda1 /dev/hdb1
182# Make the RAID-0 just created available on FreeBSD:
183ccdconfig -c /dev/ccd0 32 linux /dev/ada0s1 /dev/ada0s2
184.Ed
185.Pp
186When you create a new ccd disk you generally want to
187.Xr fdisk 8
188and
189.Xr disklabel 8
190it before doing anything else.
191Once you create the initial label you can
192edit it, adding additional partitions.
193The label itself takes up the first
19416 sectors of the ccd disk.
195If all you are doing is creating file systems
196with newfs, you do not have to worry about this as newfs will skip the
197label area.
198However, if you intend to
199.Xr dd 1
200to or from a ccd partition it is usually a good idea to construct the
201partition such that it does not overlap the label area.
202For example, if
203you have A ccd disk with 10000 sectors you might create a 'd' partition
204with offset 16 and size 9984.
205.Bd -literal
206# disklabel ccd0 > /tmp/disklabel.ccd0
207# disklabel -Rr ccd0 /tmp/disklabel.ccd0
208# disklabel -e ccd0
209.Ed
210.Pp
211The disklabeling of a ccd disk is usually a one-time affair.
212If you reboot the machine and reconfigure the ccd disk,
213the disklabel you
214had created before will still be there and not require reinitialization.
215Beware that changing any ccd parameters: interleave, flags, or the
216device list making up the ccd disk, will usually destroy any prior
217data on that ccd disk.
218If this occurs it is usually a good idea to
219reinitialize the label before [re]constructing your ccd disk.
220.Sh RECOVERY
221An error on a ccd disk is usually unrecoverable unless you are using the
222mirroring option.
223But mirroring has its own perils: It assumes that
224both copies of the data at any given sector are the same.
225This holds true
226until a write error occurs or until you replace either side of the mirror.
227This is a poor-man's mirroring implementation.
228It works well enough that if
229you begin to get disk errors you should be able to backup the ccd disk,
230replace the broken hardware, and then regenerate the ccd disk.
231If you need
232more than this you should look into external hardware RAID SCSI boxes,
233RAID controllers (see GENERIC),
234or software RAID systems such as
235.Xr geom 8
236and
237.Xr gvinum 8 .
238.Sh SEE ALSO
239.Xr dd 1 ,
240.Xr ccd 4 ,
241.Xr disklabel 8 ,
242.Xr fdisk 8 ,
243.Xr gvinum 8 ,
244.Xr rc 8
245.Sh HISTORY
246The
247.Nm
248utility first appeared in
249.Nx 1.1 .
250.Sh BUGS
251The initial disklabel returned by
252.Xr ccd 4
253specifies only 3 partitions.
254One needs to change the number of partitions to 8 using
255.Dq Nm disklabel Fl e
256to get the usual
257.Bx
258expectations.
259