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40 .Nd HAMMER file system utility
46 .Op Fl f Ar blkdev[:blkdev]*
47 .\" .Op Fl s Ar linkpath
53 This manual page documents the
55 utility which provides miscellaneous functions related to managing a
58 For a general introduction to the
60 file system, its features, and
61 examples on how to set up and maintain one, see
64 The options are as follows:
65 .Bl -tag -width indent
69 Tell the mirror commands to use a 2-way protocol, which allows
70 automatic negotiation of transaction id ranges.
71 This option is automatically enabled by the
75 Specify a bandwidth limit in bytes per second for mirroring streams.
76 This option is typically used to prevent batch mirroring operations from
77 loading down the machine.
78 The bandwidth may be suffixed with
83 to specify values in kilobytes, megabytes, and gigabytes per second.
85 When pruning and reblocking you can instruction
87 to start at the object id stored in the specified file.
88 If the file does not exist
90 will start at the beginning.
94 specific period of time and is unable to complete the operation it will
95 write out the current object id so the next run can pick up where it left off.
98 runs to completion it will delete
100 .It Fl f Ar blkdev[:blkdev]*
101 Specify the volumes making up a
105 When maintaining a streaming mirroring this option specifies the
106 minimum delay after a batch ends before the next batch is allowed
108 The default is five seconds.
110 Decrease verbosement.
111 May be specified multiple times.
113 Specify recursion for those commands which support it.
115 When pruning and reblocking you can tell the utility to stop after a
116 certain period of time.
117 This option is used along with the
119 option to prune or reblock a portion of the file system incrementally.
121 Increase verboseness.
122 May be specified multiple times.
125 The commands are as follows:
126 .Bl -tag -width indent
127 .\" ==== synctid ====
128 .It Ar synctid Ar filesystem Op quick
129 Generates a guaranteed, formal 64 bit transaction id representing the
130 current state of the specified
133 The file system will be synced to the media.
137 keyword is specified the file system will be soft-synced, meaning that a
138 crash might still undo the state of the file system as of the transaction
139 id returned but any new modifications will occur after the returned
140 transaction id as expected.
142 .It Ar bstats Op interval
145 B-tree statistics until interrupted.
148 seconds between each display.
149 The default interval is one second.
150 .\" ==== iostats ====
151 .It Ar iostats Op interval
154 I/O statistics until interrupted.
157 seconds between each display.
158 The default interval is one second.
159 .\" ==== history ====
160 .It Ar history Ar path ...
161 Show the modification history for
163 file's inode and data.
167 This command needs the
171 .\" Dump the B-tree, record, large-data, and small-data blockmaps, showing
172 .\" physical block assignments and free space percentages.
173 .\" ==== namekey1 ====
174 .It Ar namekey1 Ar filename
177 64 bit directory hash for the specified file name, using
178 the original directory hash algorithm in version 1 of the filesystem.
179 The low 32 bits are used as an iterator for hash collisions and will be
181 .\" ==== namekey2 ====
182 .It Ar namekey2 Ar filename
185 64 bit directory hash for the specified file name, using
186 the new directory hash algorithm in version 2 of the filesystem.
187 The low 32 bits are still used as an iterator but will start out containing
188 part of the hash key.
189 .\" ==== namekey32 ====
190 .It Ar namekey32 Ar filename
191 Generate the top 32 bits of a
193 64 bit directory hash for the specified file name.
194 .\" ==== cleanup ====
195 .It Ar cleanup Op Ar filesystem ...
196 This is a meta-command which executes snapshot, pruning, and reblocking
197 commands on the specified
202 is specified this command will clean-up all
204 file systems in use, including PFS's.
205 To do this it will scan all
209 mounts, extract PFS id's, and clean-up each PFS found.
211 This command will by default access a
217 creating them if necessary.
218 The format of the configuration file is:
219 .Bd -literal -offset indent
220 snapshots <period> <retention-time> [any]
221 prune <period> <max-runtime>
222 reblock <period> <1/3 max-runtime>
223 recopy <period> <1/3 max-runtime>
226 snapshots 1d 60d # 0d 60d for PFS /tmp, /var/tmp, /usr/obj
232 Time is given with a suffix of
238 meaning day, hour, minute and second.
240 If the snapshots directive has a period of 0 and a retention time of 0
241 then snapshot generation is disabled, removal of old snapshots are
242 disabled, and prunes will use
243 .Ar prune-everything .
244 If the snapshots directive has a period of 0 but a non-zero retention time
245 then this command will not create any new snapshots but will remove old
246 snapshots it finds based on the retention time.
248 By default only snapshots in the form: snap-yyyymmdd[-hhmm] are processed.
251 directive is specified as a third argument on the snapshots config line
252 then any softlink of the form *[- or .]yyyymmdd[-hhmm] will be processed.
254 A prune max-runtime of 0 means unlimited.
256 If period hasn't passed since the previous
259 For example a day has passed when midnight is passed (localtime).
267 The default configuration file will create a daily snapshot, do a daily
268 pruning and reblocking run and a monthly recopy run.
269 Reblocking is defragmentation with a level of 95%,
270 and recopy is full defragmentation.
272 By default prune and reblock operations are limited to 5 minutes per function,
273 and recopy operations are limited to 10 minutes per function.
274 Reblocking and recopy runs are each broken down into three separate functions
275 (btree, inodes and data)
276 and are thus by default limited to 15 and 30 minutes respectively.
277 Also note that this directive will by default disable snapshots on
284 The defaults may be adjusted by modifying the
287 The pruning and reblocking commands automatically maintain a cyclefile
288 for incremental operation.
289 If you interrupt (^C) the program the cyclefile will be updated, but a sub-command
290 may continue to run in the background for a few seconds until the
292 ioctl detects the interrupt.
295 PFS option can be set to use another location for the snapshots directory.
297 Work on this command is still in progress.
298 Expected additions: An ability to remove snapshots dynamically as the
299 file system becomes full.
300 .\" ==== snapshot ====
301 .It Ar snapshot Oo Ar filesystem Oc Ar snapshot-dir
302 Takes a snapshot of the file system either explicitly given by
304 or implicitly derived from the
306 argument and creates a symlink in the directory provided by
308 pointing to the snapshot.
311 is not a directory, it is assumed to be a format string passed to
313 with the current time as parameter.
316 refers to an existing directory, a default format string of "snap-%Y%d%m-%H%M"
317 is assumed and used as name for the newly created symlink.
319 Snapshot is a per PFS operation, so a
321 file system and each PFS in it have to be snapshot separately.
323 Example, assuming that
329 is a file system on its own, the following invocations:
330 .Bd -literal -offset indent
331 hammer snapshot /mysnapshots
333 hammer snapshot /mysnapshots/%Y-%m-%d
335 hammer snapshot /obj /mysnapshots/obj-%Y-%m-%d
338 would create symlinks similar to:
339 .Bd -literal -offset indent
340 /mysnapshots/snap-20080627-1210 -> /@@0x10d2cd05b7270d16
342 /mysnapshots/2008-06-27 -> /@@0x10d2cd05b7270d16
344 /mysnapshots/obj-2008-06-27 -> /obj@@0x10d2cd05b7270d16
347 .It Ar prune Ar softlink-dir
348 Prune the file system based on previously created snapshot softlinks.
349 Pruning is the act of deleting file system history.
353 will delete file system history such that
354 the file system state is retained for the given snapshots,
355 and all history after the latest snapshot,
356 but all other history is deleted.
358 The target directory is expected to contain softlinks pointing to
359 snapshots of the file systems you wish to retain.
360 The directory is scanned non-recursively and the mount points and
361 transaction ids stored in the softlinks are extracted and sorted.
362 The file system is then explicitly pruned according to what is found.
363 Cleaning out portions of the file system is as simple as removing a softlink
368 As a safety measure pruning only occurs if one or more softlinks are found
369 containing the @@ snapshot id extension.
370 Currently the scanned softlink directory must contain softlinks pointing
374 The softlinks may specify absolute or relative paths.
375 Softlinks must use 20-character (@@0x%016llx) transaction ids,
376 as might be returned from
377 .Dq Nm Ar synctid filesystem .
379 Pruning is a per PFS operation, so a
381 file system and each PFS in it have to be pruned separately.
383 Note that pruning a file system may not immediately free-up space,
384 though typically some space will be freed if a large number of records are
386 The file system must be reblocked to completely recover all available space.
388 Example, lets say your snapshot directory contains the following links:
389 .Bd -literal -offset indent
390 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 29 May 31 17:57 snap1 ->
391 /usr/obj/@@0x10d2cd05b7270d16
393 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 29 May 31 17:58 snap2 ->
394 /usr/obj/@@0x10d2cd13f3fde98f
396 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 29 May 31 17:59 snap3 ->
397 /usr/obj/@@0x10d2cd222adee364
400 If you were to run the
402 command on this directory, then the
405 mount will be pruned to retain the above three snapshots.
406 In addition, history for modifications made to the file system older than
407 the oldest snapshot will be destroyed and history for potentially fine-grained
408 modifications made to the file system more recently than the most recent
409 snapshot will be retained.
411 If you then delete the
413 softlink and rerun the
416 history for modifications pertaining to that snapshot would be destroyed.
417 .\" ==== prune-everything ====
418 .It Ar prune-everything Ar filesystem
419 This command will remove all historical records from the file system.
420 This directive is not normally used on a production system.
421 .\" ==== reblock ====
422 .It Ar reblock Ar filesystem Op Ar fill_percentage
423 .It Ar reblock-btree Ar filesystem Op Ar fill_percentage
424 .It Ar reblock-inodes Ar filesystem Op Ar fill_percentage
425 .It Ar reblock-dirs Ar filesystem Op Ar fill_percentage
426 .It Ar reblock-data Ar filesystem Op Ar fill_percentage
427 Attempt to defragment and free space for reuse by reblocking a live
430 Big blocks cannot be reused by
432 until they are completely free.
433 This command also has the effect of reordering all elements, effectively
434 defragmenting the file system.
436 The default fill percentage is 100% and will cause the file system to be
437 completely defragmented.
438 All specified element types will be reallocated and rewritten.
439 If you wish to quickly free up space instead try specifying
440 a smaller fill percentage, such as 90% or 80% (the
442 suffix is not needed).
444 Since this command may rewrite the entire contents of the disk it is
445 best to do it incrementally from a
451 options to limit the run time.
452 The file system would thus be defragmented over long period of time.
454 It is recommended that separate invocations be used for each data type.
455 B-tree nodes, inodes, and directories are typically the most important
456 elements needing defragmentation.
457 Data can be defragmented over a longer period of time.
459 Reblocking is a per PFS operation, so a
461 file system and each PFS in it have to be reblocked separately.
462 .\" ==== pfs-status ====
463 .It Ar pfs-status Ar dirpath ...
464 Retrieve the mirroring configuration parameters for the specified
466 file systems or pseudo-filesystems (PFS's).
467 .\" ==== pfs-master ====
468 .It Ar pfs-master Ar dirpath Op options
469 Create a pseudo-filesystem (PFS) inside a
472 Up to 65535 such file systems can be created.
473 Each PFS uses an independent inode numbering space making it suitable
474 for use as a replication source or target.
478 directive creates a PFS that you can read, write, and use as a mirroring
481 It is recommended to use a
483 mount to access a PFS, for more information see
485 .\" ==== pfs-slave ====
486 .It Ar pfs-slave Ar dirpath Op options
487 Create a pseudo-filesystem (PFS) inside a
490 Up to 65535 such file systems can be created.
491 Each PFS uses an independent inode numbering space making it suitable
492 for use as a replication source or target.
496 directive creates a PFS that you can use as a mirroring target.
497 You will not be able to access a slave PFS until you have completed the
498 first mirroring operation with it as the target (its root directory will
499 not exist until then).
501 Access to the pfs-slave via the special softlink,
507 dynamically modify the snapshot transaction id by returning a dynamic result
512 A PFS can only be truly destroyed with the
515 Removing the softlink will not destroy the underlying PFS.
517 It is recommended to use a
519 mount to access a PFS, for more information see
521 .\" ==== pfs-update ====
522 .It Ar pfs-update Ar dirpath Op options
523 Update the configuration parameters for an existing
526 or pseudo-filesystem.
527 Options that may be specified:
528 .Bl -tag -width indent
529 .It sync-beg-tid=0x16llx
530 This is the automatic snapshot access starting transaction id for
532 This parameter is normally updated automatically by the
536 It is important to note that accessing a mirroring slave
537 with a transaction id greater than the last fully synchronized transaction
538 id can result in an unreliable snapshot since you will be accessing
539 data that is still undergoing synchronization.
541 Manually modifying this field is dangerous and can result in a broken
543 .It sync-end-tid=0x16llx
544 This is the current synchronization point for mirroring slaves.
545 This parameter is normally updated automatically by the
549 Manually modifying this field is dangerous and can result in a broken mirror.
550 .It shared-uuid=<uuid>
551 Set the shared UUID for this file system.
552 All mirrors must have the same shared UUID.
553 For safety purposes the
555 directives will refuse to operate on a target with a different shared UUID.
557 Changing the shared UUID on an existing, non-empty mirroring target,
558 including an empty but not completely pruned target,
559 can lead to corruption of the mirroring target.
560 .It unique-uuid=<uuid>
561 Set the unique UUID for this file system.
562 This UUID should not be used anywhere else,
563 even on exact copies of the file system.
565 Set a descriptive label for this file system.
566 .It snapshots=<string>
567 Specify the snapshots directory which
570 will use to manage this PFS.
571 The snapshots directory does not need to be configured for
572 PFS masters and will default to
573 .Pa <pfs>/snapshots .
575 PFS slaves are mirroring slaves so you cannot configure a snapshots
576 directory on the slave itself to be managed by the slave's machine.
577 In fact, the slave will likely have a
579 sub-directory mirrored
580 from the master, but that directory contains the configuration the master
581 is using for its copy of the file system, not the configuration that we
582 want to use for our slave.
584 It is recommended that
585 .Pa <fs>/var/slaves/<name>
586 be configured for a PFS slave, where
592 is an appropriate label.
593 You can control snapshot retention on your slave independent of the master.
595 Zero out the snapshots directory path for this PFS.
597 .\" ==== pfs-upgrade ====
598 .It Ar pfs-upgrade Ar dirpath
599 Upgrade a PFS from slave to master operation.
600 The PFS will be rolled back to the current end synchronization tid
601 (removing any partial synchronizations), and will then become writable.
605 currently supports only single masters and using
606 this command can easily result in file system corruption
607 if you don't know what you are doing.
609 This directive will refuse to run if any programs have open descriptors
610 in the PFS, including programs chdir'd into the PFS.
611 .\" ==== pfs-downgrade ====
612 .It Ar pfs-downgrade Ar dirpath
613 Downgrade a master PFS from master to slave operation
614 The PFS becomes read-only and access will be locked to its
617 This directive will refuse to run if any programs have open descriptors
618 in the PFS, including programs chdir'd into the PFS.
619 .\" ==== pfs-destroy ====
620 .It Ar pfs-destroy Ar dirpath
621 This permanently destroys a PFS.
623 This directive will refuse to run if any programs have open descriptors
624 in the PFS, including programs chdir'd into the PFS.
625 .\" ==== mirror-read ====
626 .It Ar mirror-read Ar filesystem Op Ar <begin-tid>
627 Generate a mirroring stream to stdout.
628 The stream ends when the transaction id space has been exhausted.
629 .\" ==== mirror-read-stream ====
630 .It Ar mirror-read-stream Ar filesystem Op Ar <begin-tid>
631 Generate a mirroring stream to stdout.
632 Upon completion the stream is paused until new data is synced to the
633 master, then resumed.
634 Operation continues until the pipe is broken.
635 .\" ==== mirror-write ====
636 .It Ar mirror-write Ar filesystem
637 Take a mirroring stream on stdin.
639 This command will fail if the
641 configuration field for the two file systems do not match.
643 If the target PFS does not exist this command will ask you whether
644 you want to create a compatible PFS slave for the target or not.
645 .\" ==== mirror-dump ====
651 to dump an ASCII representation of the mirroring stream.
652 .\" ==== mirror-copy ====
653 .It Ar mirror-copy Ar [[user@]host:]filesystem Ar [[user@]host:]filesystem
654 This is a shortcut which pipes a
659 If a remote host specification is made the program forks a
665 on the appropriate host.
666 The source may be a master or slave PFS, and the target must be a slave PFS.
668 This command also established full duplex communication and turns on
669 the two-way protocol feature which automatically negotiates transaction id
670 ranges without having to use a cyclefile.
671 If the operation completes successfully the target PFS's
674 Note that you must re-chdir into the target PFS to see the updated information.
675 If you do not you will still be in the previous snapshot.
677 If the target PFS does not exist this command will ask you whether
678 you want to create a compatible PFS slave for the target or not.
679 .\" ==== mirror-stream ====
680 .It Ar mirror-stream Ar [[user@]host:]filesystem Ar [[user@]host:]filesystem
681 This command works similarly to
683 but does not exit unless the pipe is broken.
684 This command will resume the mirroring operation whenever the master is synced.
685 The command is commonly used with
689 options to keep the mirroring target in sync with the source on a continuing
691 .\" ==== version ====
692 .It Ar version Ar filesystem
693 This command returns the
695 filesystem version for the specified
696 filesystem as well as the range of versions supported in the kernel.
699 option may be used to remove the summary at the end.
700 .\" ==== version-upgrade ====
701 .It Ar version-upgrade Ar filesystem Ar version Op Ar force
702 This command upgrades the
704 filesystem to the specified version.
705 Once upgraded a filesystem may not be downgraded.
706 If you wish to upgrade a filesystem to a version greater or equal to the
707 work-in-progress version number you must specify the
710 Use of WIP versions should be relegated to testing and may require wiping
711 the filesystem as development progresses, even though the WIP version might
714 NOTE! This command operates on the entire
716 filesystem and is not a per-PFS operation.
717 All PFS's will be affected.
718 .Bl -tag -width indent
721 default version, first
725 Work-in-progress version.
726 This version is developing a new directory hash key.
730 .Sh PSEUDO FILESYSTEM (PFS) NOTES
731 The root of a PFS is not hooked into the primary
733 file system as a directory.
736 creates a special softlink called "@@PFS%05d" (exactly 10 characters long)
741 then modifies the contents of the softlink as read by
743 and thus what you see with an
745 command or if you were to
748 If the PFS is a master the link reflects the current state of the PFS.
749 If the PFS is a slave the link reflects the last completed snapshot, and the
750 contents of the link will change when the next snapshot is completed, and
753 PFS support is currently very new and experimental.
756 utility employs numerous safeties to reduce user foot-shooting.
759 directive requires that the target be configured as a slave and that the
761 field of the mirroring source and target match.
765 .Bl -tag -width ".It Pa <fs>/var/slaves/<name>" -compact
767 default per PFS snapshots directory
768 .It Pa <snapshots>/config
772 .It Pa <fs>/var/slaves/<name>
773 recommended slave PFS snapshots directory
778 .Xr periodic.conf 5 ,
785 utility first appeared in
788 .An Matthew Dillon Aq dillon@backplane.com