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GNOP(8) 		     System Manager's Manual			 GNOP(8)

NAME
     gnop -- control utility for NOP GEOM class

SYNOPSIS
     gnop create [-v] [-c count_until_fail] [-d delaymsec] [-e error]
	  [-o offset] [-p stripesize] [-P stripeoffset] [-q rdelayprob]
	  [-r rfailprob] [-s size] [-S secsize] [-w wfailprob] [-x wdelayprob]
	  [-z physpath] [-Z gnopname] dev ...
     gnop configure [-v] [-c count_until_fail] [-d delaymsec] [-e error]
	  [-q rdelayprob] [-r rfailprob] [-w wfailprob] [-x wdelayprob] prov ...
     gnop destroy [-fv] prov ...
     gnop reset [-v] prov ...
     gnop list
     gnop status
     gnop load
     gnop unload

DESCRIPTION
     The  gnop	utility is used for setting up transparent providers on existing
     ones.  Its main purpose is testing other GEOM classes, as it allows  forced
     provider  removal	and  I/O  error simulation with a given probability.  It
     also gathers statistics on the number  of	read,  write,  delete,	getattr,
     flush,  and other requests, and the number of bytes read and written.  gnop
     can also be used as  a  good  starting  point  for  implementing  new  GEOM
     classes.

     The first argument to gnop indicates an action to be performed:

     create	Set  up a transparent provider on the given devices.  If the op-
		eration succeeds, the  new  provider  should  appear  with  name
		/dev/<dev>.nop.  The kernel module geom_nop.ko will be loaded if
		it is not loaded already.

     configure	Configure  existing  transparent  provider.  At the moment it is
		only used for changing failure probability.

     destroy	Turn off the given transparent providers.

     reset	Reset statistics for the given transparent providers.

     list	See geom(8).

     status	See geom(8).

     load	See geom(8).

     unload	See geom(8).

     Additional options:

     -c count_until_fail  Specifies the number of I/O requests to  allow  before
			  setting  the	read, write and delay failure probabili-
			  ties.

     -d delaymsec	  Specifies the delay of the requests  in  milliseconds.
			  Note	that  requests	will  be delayed before they are
			  sent to the backing device.

     -e error		  Specifies the error number to return on failure.

     -f 		  Force the removal of the specified provider.

     -o offset		  Where to begin on the original provider.

     -p stripesize	  Value of the stripesize property  of	the  transparent
			  provider.

     -P stripeoffset	  Value  of the stripeoffset property of the transparent
			  provider.

     -q rdelayprob	  Specifies read delay probability in percent.

     -r rfailprob	  Specifies read failure probability in percent.

     -s size		  Size of the transparent provider.

     -S secsize 	  Sector size of the transparent provider.

     -w wfailprob	  Specifies write failure probability in percent.

     -v 		  Be more verbose.

     -x wdelayprob	  Specifies write delay probability in percent.

     -z physpath	  Physical path of the transparent provider.

     -Z gnopname	  The name of the new provider.  The suffix ".nop"  will
			  be appended to the provider name.

SYSCTL VARIABLES
     The  following  sysctl(8)	variables can be used to control the behavior of
     the NOP GEOM class.  The default value is shown next to each variable.

     kern.geom.nop.debug: 0
	     Debug level of the NOP GEOM class.  This can be set to a number be-
	     tween 0 and 2 inclusive.  If set to 0, minimal debug information is
	     printed.  If set to 1, basic debug information is logged along with
	     the I/O requests that were returned as errors.  If set  to  2,  the
	     maximum  amount  of  debug information is printed including all I/O
	     requests.

EXIT STATUS
     Exit status is 0 on success, and 1 if the command fails.

EXAMPLES
     The following example shows how to create a transparent provider  for  disk
     /dev/da0 with 50% write failure probability, and how to destroy it.

	   gnop create -v -w 50 da0
	   gnop destroy -v da0.nop

     The  traffic statistics for the given transparent providers can be obtained
     with the list command.  The example below shows the number of bytes written
     with newfs(8):

	   gnop create da0
	   newfs /dev/da0.nop
	   gnop list

SEE ALSO
     geom(4), geom(8)

HISTORY
     The gnop utility appeared in FreeBSD 5.3.

AUTHORS
     Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>

FreeBSD ports 15.1		December 29, 2019			 GNOP(8)

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