GGATEC(8) FreeBSD System Manager's Manual GGATEC(8)
NAME
ggatec - GEOM Gate network client and control utility
SYNOPSIS
ggatec create [-n] [-v] [-o ro | wo | rw] [-p port] [-q queue_size]
[-R rcvbuf] [-S sndbuf] [-s sectorsize] [-t timeout] [-u unit]
host path
ggatec rescue [-n] [-v] [-o ro | wo | rw] [-p port] [-R rcvbuf]
[-S sndbuf] -u unit host path
ggatec destroy [-f] -u unit
ggatec list [-v] [-u unit]
DESCRIPTION
The ggatec utility is a network client for the GEOM Gate class. It is
responsible for the creation of ggate devices and forwarding I/O requests
between the GEOM Gate kernel subsystem and the ggated(8) network daemon.
Available commands:
create Connect to a ggated(8) daemon on the specified host and create a
ggate provider for the specified remote file or device.
rescue Create a new connection after the ggatec process has died or
been killed. The new connection to the ggated(8) daemon handles
pending and future requests.
destroy Destroy the given ggate provider.
list List ggate providers.
Available options:
-f Forcibly destroy ggate provider (cancels all pending
requests).
-n Do not use TCP_NODELAY option on TCP sockets.
-o ro | wo | rw Specify permissions to use when opening the file or
device: read-only (ro), write-only (wo), or read-write
(rw). Default is rw.
-p port Port to connect to on the remote host. Default is
3080.
-q queue_size Number of pending I/O requests that can be queued
before they will start to be canceled. Default is
1024.
-R rcvbuf Size of receive buffer to use. Default is 131072
(128kB).
-S sndbuf Size of send buffer to use. Default is 131072
(128kB).
-s sectorsize Sector size for ggate provider. If not specified, it
is taken from the device, or set to 512 bytes for
files.
-t timeout Number of seconds to wait before an I/O request will
be canceled. Default is 0, which means no timeout.
-u unit Unit number to use.
-v Do not fork, run in foreground and print debug
information on standard output.
host Remote host to connect to.
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, ggatec should be called with the -v option.
EXAMPLES
Use a CD-ROM device on a remote host.
server# cat /etc/gg.exports
client RO /dev/cd0
server# ggated
client# ggatec create -o ro server /dev/cd0
ggate0
client# mount_cd9660 /dev/ggate0 /cdrom
SEE ALSO
geom(4), ggated(8), ggatel(8), mount_cd9660(8)
HISTORY
The ggatec utility appeared in FreeBSD 5.3.
AUTHORS
The ggatec utility as well as this manual page was written by Pawel Jakub
Dawidek <
[email protected]>.
FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p8 September 8, 2016 FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p8