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authorMarco Peereboom <marco@cvs.openbsd.org>2009-06-17 23:00:04 +0000
committerMarco Peereboom <marco@cvs.openbsd.org>2009-06-17 23:00:04 +0000
commit5a0b0921133cc08c0956efabe97dbc054903e368 (patch)
treef6c66f18476e86b46540a2d365f83a8a1bcd41df
parent08215f412037745647e47666dab75fca927c87ad (diff)
Bring bioctl back to reality by adding rebuild and documenting RAID 4 & 5.
ok jordan
-rw-r--r--sbin/bioctl/bioctl.817
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/bioctl/bioctl.8 b/sbin/bioctl/bioctl.8
index b824533ff34..82737684c44 100644
--- a/sbin/bioctl/bioctl.8
+++ b/sbin/bioctl/bioctl.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: bioctl.8,v 1.68 2009/06/13 21:14:38 halex Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: bioctl.8,v 1.69 2009/06/17 23:00:03 marco Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2004, 2005 Marco Peereboom
.\"
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: June 13 2009 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: June 17 2009 $
.Dt BIOCTL 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -184,6 +184,12 @@ A striping discipline.
.It 1
RAID 1:
A mirroring discipline.
+.It 4
+RAID 4
+A striping discipline with fixed parity chunk.
+.It 5
+RAID 5
+A striping discipline with floating parity chunk.
.It C
CRYPTO:
An encrypting discipline.
@@ -191,7 +197,8 @@ An encrypting discipline.
.Pp
The RAID 0 and RAID 1 disciplines requires a minimum of two devices passed to
.Fl l ,
-while the CRYPTO discipline requires exactly one.
+RAID 4 & 5 require at least three devices and the CRYPTO discipline requires
+exactly one.
.It Fl d
Delete volume specified by device.
.It Fl l Ar special[,special,...]
@@ -260,6 +267,4 @@ The
interface was written by
.An Marco Peereboom Aq marco@openbsd.org .
.Sh CAVEATS
-Use of the crypto discipline is currently considered experimental.
-.Pp
-Manual rebuild is currently not implemented for softraid.
+Use of the crypto & RAID 4/5 disciplines are currently considered experimental.