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30.\" Authors: Ken Merry           (Spectra Logic Corporation)
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34.Dd May 18, 2016
35.Dt ZONECTL 8
36.Os
37.Sh NAME
38.Nm zonectl
39.Nd Shingled Magnetic Recording Zone Control utility
40.Sh SYNOPSIS
41.Nm
42.Aq Fl d Ar dev
43.Aq Fl c Ar cmd
44.Op Fl a
45.Op Fl l Ar LBA
46.Op Fl o Ar rep_opts
47.Op Fl P Ar print_opts
48.Sh DESCRIPTION
49Manage
50.Tn SCSI
51and
52.Tn ATA
53Zoned Block devices.
54This allows managing devices that conform to the
55.Tn SCSI
56Zoned Block Commands (ZBC) and
57.Tn ATA
58Zoned ATA Command Set (ZAC)
59specifications.
60Devices using these command sets are usually hard drives using Shingled
61Magnetic Recording (SMR).
62There are three types of SMR drives:
63.Bl -tag -width 13n
64.It Drive Managed
65Drive Managed drives look and act just like a standard random access block
66device, but underneath, the drive reads and writes the bulk of its capacity
67using SMR zones.
68Sequential writes will yield better performance, but writing sequentially
69is not required.
70.It Host Aware
71Host Aware drives expose the underlying zone layout via
72.Tn SCSI
73or
74.Tn ATA
75commands and allow the host to manage the zone conditions.
76The host is not required to manage the zones on the drive, though.
77Sequential writes will yield better performance in Sequential Write
78Preferred zones, but the host can write randomly in those zones.
79.It Host Managed
80Host Managed drives expose the underlying zone layout via
81.Tn SCSI
82or
83.Tn ATA
84commands.
85The host is required to access the zones according to the rules described
86by the zone layout.
87Any commands that violate the rules will be returned with an error.
88.El
89.Pp
90SMR drives are divided into zones (typically in the range of 256MB each)
91that fall into three general categories:
92.Bl -tag -width 20n
93.It Conventional
94These are also known as Non Write Pointer zones.
95These zones can be randomly written without an unexpected performance penalty.
96.It Sequential Preferred
97These zones should be written sequentially starting at the write pointer
98for the zone.
99They may be written randomly.
100Writes that do not conform to the zone layout may be significantly slower
101than expected.
102.It Sequential Required
103These zones must be written sequentially.
104If they are not written sequentially, starting at the write pointer, the
105command will fail.
106.El
107.Bl -tag -width 12n
108.It Fl c Ar cmd
109Specify the zone subcommand:
110.Bl -tag -width 6n
111.It params
112Display device parameters, including the type of device (Drive Managed,
113Host Aware, Host Managed, Not Zoned), the zone commands supported, and
114how many open zones it supports.
115.It rz
116Issue the Report Zones command.
117All zones are returned by default.
118Specify report options with
119.Fl o
120and printing options with
121.Fl P .
122Specify the starting LBA with
123.Fl l .
124Note that
125.Dq reportzones
126is also accepted as a command argument.
127.It open
128Explicitly open the zone specified by the starting LBA.
129.It close
130Close the zone specified by starting LBA.
131.It finish
132Finish the zone specified by the starting LBA.
133.It rwp
134Reset the write pointer for the zone specified by the starting LBA.
135.El
136.It Fl a
137For the Open, Close, Finish, and Reset Write Pointer operations, apply the
138operation to all zones on the drive.
139.It Fl l Ar lba
140Specify the starting LBA.
141For the Report Zones command, this tells the drive to report starting with
142the zone that starts at the given LBA.
143For the other commands, this allows the user to identify the zone requested
144by its starting LBA.
145The LBA may be specified in decimal, hexadecimal or octal notation.
146.It Fl o Ar rep_opt
147For the Report Zones command, specify a subset of zones to report.
148.Bl -tag -width 8n
149.It all
150Report all zones.
151This is the default.
152.It emtpy
153Report only empty zones.
154.It imp_open
155Report zones that are implicitly open.
156This means that the host has sent a write to the zone without explicitly
157opening the zone.
158.It exp_open
159Report zones that are explicitly open.
160.It closed
161Report zones that have been closed by the host.
162.It full
163Report zones that are full.
164.It ro
165Report zones that are in the read only state.
166Note that
167.Dq readonly
168is also accepted as an argument.
169.It offline
170Report zones that are in the offline state.
171.It reset
172Report zones that the device recommends should have their write pointers reset.
173.It nonseq
174Report zones that have the Non Sequential Resources Active flag set.
175These are zones that are Sequential Write Preferred, but have been written
176non-sequentially.
177.It nonwp
178Report Non Write Pointer zones, also known as Conventional zones.
179.El
180.It Fl P Ar print_opt
181Specify a printing option for Report Zones:
182.Bl -tag -width 7n
183.It normal
184Normal Report Zones output.
185This is the default.
186The summary and column headings are printed, fields are separated by spaces
187and the fields themselves may contain spaces.
188.It summary
189Just print the summary:  the number of zones, the maximum LBA (LBA of the
190last logical block on the drive), and the value of the
191.Dq same
192field.
193The
194.Dq same
195field describes whether the zones on the drive are all identical, all
196different, or whether they are the same except for the last zone, etc.
197.It script
198Print the zones in a script friendly format.
199The summary and column headings are omitted, the fields are separated by
200commas, and the fields do not contain spaces.
201The fields contain underscores where spaces would normally be used.
202.El
203.El
204.Sh EXAMPLES
205.Bd -literal -offset indent
206zonectl -d /dev/da5 -c params
207.Ed
208.Pp
209Display basic zoning information for disk da5.
210.Bd -literal -offset indent
211zonectl -d /dev/da5 -c rz
212.Ed
213.Pp
214Issue the Report Zones command to disk da5, and print out all
215zones on the drive in the default format.
216.Bd -literal -offset indent
217zonectl -d /dev/da5 -c rz -o reset -P script
218.Ed
219.Pp
220Issue the Report Zones command to disk da5, and print out all
221of the zones that have the Reset Write Pointer Recommended bit set to true.
222Print the zones in a script friendly form.
223.Bd -literal -offset indent
224zonectl -d /dev/da5 -c rwp -l 0x2c80000
225.Ed
226.Pp
227Issue the Reset Write Pointer command to disk da5 for the zone
228that starts at LBA 0x2c80000.
229.Sh SEE ALSO
230.Xr camcontrol 8
231.Sh AUTHORS
232.An Kenneth Merry Aq ken@FreeBSD.org
233