ccdconfig(8) manual page

The ccdconfig utility is used to dynamically configure and unconfigure concatenated disk devices, or ccds. For more information about the ccd, see ccd(4).

The options are as follows:

-c

Configure a ccd. This is the default behavior of ccdconfig.

-C

Configure all ccd devices listed in the ccd configuration file.

-f config_file

When configuring or unconfiguring all devices, read the file config_file instead of the default /etc/ccd.conf.

-g

Dump the current ccd configuration in a format suitable for use as the ccd configuration file. If no arguments are specified, every configured ccd is dumped. Otherwise, the configuration of each listed ccd is dumped.

-u

Unconfigure a ccd.

-U

Unconfigure all ccd devices listed the ccd configuration file.

-v

Cause ccdconfig to be verbose.

A ccd is described on the command line and in the ccd configuration file by the name of the ccd, the interleave factor, the ccd configuration flags, and a list of one or more devices. The flags may be represented as a decimal number, a hexadecimal number, a comma-separated list of strings, or the word "none". The flags are as follows:

CCDF_UNIFORM    0x02            Use uniform interleave
CCDF_MIRROR     0x04            Support mirroring
CCDF_NO_OFFSET  0x08            Do not use an offset
CCDF_LINUX      0x0A            Linux md(4) compatibility

The format in the configuration file appears exactly as if it were entered on the command line. Note that on the command line and in the configuration file, the flags argument is optional.

# # /etc/ccd.conf # Configuration file for concatenated disk devices #

# ccd ileave flags component devices ccd0 16 none /dev/da2s1 /dev/da3s1

If you want to use the Linux md(4) compatibility mode, please be sure to read the notes in ccd(4).

A number of ccdconfig examples are shown below. The arguments passed to ccdconfig are exactly the same as you might place in the /etc/ccd.conf configuration file. The first example creates a 4-disk stripe out of four scsi disk partitions. The stripe uses a 64 sector interleave. The second example is an example of a complex stripe/mirror combination. It reads as a two disk stripe of da4 and da5 which is mirrored to a two disk stripe of da6 and da7. The last example is a simple mirror. The second slice of /dev/da8 is mirrored with the third slice of /dev/da9 and assigned to ccd0.

# ccdconfig ccd0 64 none /dev/da0s1 /dev/da1s1 /dev/da2s1 /dev/da3s1
# ccdconfig ccd0 128 CCDF_MIRROR /dev/da4 /dev/da5 /dev/da6 /dev/da7
# ccdconfig ccd0 128 CCDF_MIRROR /dev/da8s2 /dev/da9s3

The following are matching commands in Linux and FreeBSD to create a RAID-0 in Linux and read it from FreeBSD .

# Create a RAID-0 on Linux:
mdadm --create --chunk=32 --level=0 --raid-devices=2 /dev/md0 \
   /dev/hda1 /dev/hdb1
# Make the RAID-0 just created available on FreeBSD:
ccdconfig -c /dev/ccd0 32 linux /dev/ada0s1 /dev/ada0s2

When you create a new ccd disk you generally want to partition it using gpart(8) it before doing anything else. Beware that changing any ccd parameters: interleave, flags, or the device list making up the ccd disk, will usually destroy any prior data on that ccd disk. If this occurs it is usually a good idea to reinitialize the label before [re]constructing your ccd disk.

An error on a ccd disk is usually unrecoverable unless you are using the mirroring option. But mirroring has its own perils: It assumes that both copies of the data at any given sector are the same. This holds true until a write error occurs or until you replace either side of the mirror. This is a poor-man's mirroring implementation. It works well enough that if you begin to get disk errors you should be able to backup the ccd disk, replace the broken hardware, and then regenerate the ccd disk. If you need more than this you should look into external hardware RAID SCSI boxes, RAID controllers (see GENERIC), or software RAID systems such as graid(8) or zfs(8).

dd(1), ccd(4), gpart(8), graid(8), rc(8), zfs(8)

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Manual Pages — CCDCONFIG

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-c
	Configure a ccd. This is the default behavior of ccdconfig.
-C
	Configure all ccd devices listed in the ccd configuration file.
-f config_file
	When configuring or unconfiguring all devices, read the file `config_file` instead of the default `/etc/ccd.conf`.
-g
	Dump the current ccd configuration in a format suitable for use as the ccd configuration file. If no arguments are specified, every configured ccd is dumped. Otherwise, the configuration of each listed ccd is dumped.
-u
	Unconfigure a ccd.
-U
	Unconfigure all ccd devices listed the ccd configuration file.
-v
	Cause ccdconfig to be verbose.