freebsd man page for ggatel

Query: ggatel

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

NAME
ggatel -- GEOM Gate local control utility
SYNOPSIS
ggatel create [-v] [-o ro | wo | rw] [-s sectorsize] [-t timeout] [-u unit] path ggatel attach [-v] [-o ro | wo | rw] -u unit path ggatel destroy [-f] -u unit ggatel list [-v] [-u unit]
DESCRIPTION
The ggatel utility is a local GEOM Gate class consumer. It can be used as a replacement for md(4) devices or as a ``GEOMificator'' for non GEOM-aware devices, but it was mainly created as an example on how to use and how to communicate with the GEOM Gate kernel module. Available commands: create Create a ggate provider related to the given regular file or device. attach Attach a worker process to an existing ggate provider. destroy Destroy the given ggate provider. list List ggate providers. Available options: -f Forcibly destroy ggate provider (cancels all pending requests). -o ro | wo | rw Specify permission to use when opening the file or device: read-only (ro), write-only (wo), or read-write (rw). Default is rw. -s sectorsize Sector size for ggate provider. If not specified, it is taken from device, or set to 512 bytes for files. -t timeout Number of seconds to wait before an I/O request will be canceled. 0 means no timeout. Default is 30. -u unit Unit number to use. -v Do not fork, run in foreground and print debug informations on standard output. path Path to a regular file or device.
EXIT STATUS
Exit status is 0 on success, or 1 if the command fails. To get details about the failure, ggatel should be called with the -v option.
EXAMPLES
``GEOMify'' the ``fd0'' device and use gbde(8) to encrypt data on a floppy. ggatel create -u 5 /dev/fd0 gbde init /dev/ggate5 gbde attach ggate5 newfs /dev/ggate5.bde mount /dev/ggate5.bde /secret cp /private/foo /secret/ umount /secret gbde detach ggate5 ggatel destroy -u 5
SEE ALSO
geom(4), gbde(8), ggatec(8), ggated(8), mount(8), newfs(8)
AUTHORS
The ggatel utility as well as this manual page was written by Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>.
BSD
April 2, 2011 BSD
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