aoecfg(8) [debian man page]

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

NAME

       aoecfg - manipulate AoE configuration strings

SYNOPSIS

       aoecfg [-c cmd] [-s cfgstr] [-t timeout] [shelf slot] [netif]

DESCRIPTION

       Aoecfg(8)  sends  AoE configuration commands that control the retrivial, conditional or unconditional setting of AoE configuration strings.
       Since configuration happens before the MAC address of the target is known, the packet is broadcast.  AoE targets with a matching shelf  and
       slot respond.  Since the default shelf and slot are the wildcard values 0xffff and 0xff, with no arguments aoecfg(8) will return configura-
       tion strings from all targets visible on the default interface, eth0.

OPTIONS

       -c cmd  specify the AoE configuration command.  The default is read.  The available commands are

       read Read the server config string without performing any test and respond.

       test Respond only if the specified string exactly matches the server configuration string.

       prefix Respond only if the specified string is a prefix of the server configuration string.

       set If the current server config string is empty, set the server config string to the argument string and respond.  If the  current  server
	       config string is not empty, return a response with Flags bit E set and Error set to 4.

       fset Force set the server config string to the argument string and respond.

       -s cfgstr
	       specify the config string.

       -t timeout
	       specify	the  timeout in seconds.  The default is no timeout.  If neither the shelf nor the slot are specified, aoecfg(8) will exit
	       after the first result.	Otherwise, aoecfg(8) will exit only after the timeout  has  expired  since  it	does  not  know  how  many
	       responses to expect.

       shelf slot
	       specify the shelf and slot used in the query.  If unspecified, they default to broadcast.

       netif   specifiy the network interface.	The default is eth0.

SEE ALSO

       aoe-discover(8),   aoe-interfaces(8),  aoe-mkdevs(8),  aoe-mkshelf(8),  aoe-stat(8),  aoeping(8),  AoE  (ATA  over  Ethernet):  http://sup-
       port.coraid.com/documents/AoEr10.txt, ATA specification

AUTHOR

       Erik Quanstrom (quanstro@coraid.com)

																	 aoecfg(8)

aoe-mkdevs(8)						      System Manager's Manual						     aoe-mkdevs(8)

NAME

       aoe-mkdevs - create special device files for aoe driver

SYNOPSIS

       aoe-mkdevs {device-dir}
       env n_partitions=1 aoe-mkdevs {device-dir}

DESCRIPTION

       The aoe-mkdevs command is deprecated in favor of udev.  Systems with udev do not need to use the aoe-mkdevs or aoe-mkself commands, because
       udev will create device nodes as needed.

       Systems without udev use aoe-mkdevs to create the character special files necessary to control the aoe driver.  The aoe-mkdevs command uses
       aoe-mkshelf to also create block special files.

       The aoe drivers after version 49 support dynamic minor device numbers so that a greater number of devices can be supported.  The aoe-mkdevs
       command is incompatible with dynamic device numbers.  If your system lacks udev, and you are using an aoe driver version 50 or  above,  use
       the aoe_dyndevs=0 module option to force the aoe driver to use static device numbers.

       If  you	are  not  using  dynamic device numbers, and you built your aoe driver to support only one partition per device (whole-disk parti-
       tions), then the device files must match, and you should use the n_partitions environment variable described below.

   Arguments
       device-dir
	      This should be the name of the directory where the special device files will be created.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       If the n_partitions variable is set in the environment, it will override the default number of partitions per aoe disk, namely 16.

EXAMPLE

       In this example, the root user on a host named nai creates special files for using the aoe disks in shelf 7.  After  remembering  that  the
       driver  doesn't have partition support, this sysadmin gets rid of the mismatching device nodes and calls aoe-mkdevs again with n_partitions
       set to 1.

	      nai:~# rm -rf /dev/etherd
	      nai:~# aoe-mkdevs /dev/etherd
	      nai:~# ls /dev/etherd | wc -l
	      1603
	      nai:~# rm -rf /dev/etherd
	      nai:~# n_partitions=1 aoe-mkdevs /dev/etherd
	      nai:~# ls /dev/etherd | wc -l
	      103

SEE ALSO

       aoe-discover(8), aoe-interfaces(8), aoe-mkshelf(8), aoe-stat(8), aoetools(8), udev(7).

AUTHOR

       Ed L. Cashin (ecashin@coraid.com)

																     aoe-mkdevs(8)