213 lines
6.7 KiB
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213 lines
6.7 KiB
Groff
.\" $NetBSD: ccd.4,v 1.5 1995/10/09 06:09:09 thorpej Exp $
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.\"
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.\" Copyright (c) 1994 Jason Downs.
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.\" Copyright (c) 1994, 1995 Jason R. Thorpe.
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.\" All rights reserved.
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.\"
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.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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.\" are met:
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.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
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.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
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.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
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.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
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.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
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.\" must display the following acknowledgement:
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.\" This product includes software developed for the NetBSD Project
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.\" by Jason Downs and Jason R. Thorpe.
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.\" 4. Neither the name of the author nor the names of its contributors
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.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
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.\" without specific prior written permission.
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.\"
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.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR
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.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES
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.\" OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED.
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.\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT,
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.\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING,
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.\" BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES;
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.\" LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED
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.\" AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY,
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.\" OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
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.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\"
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd August 9, 1995
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.Dt CCD 4
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm ccd
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.Nd Concatenated Disk driver
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Cd "device ccd"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm
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driver provides the capability of combining one or more disks/partitions
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into one virtual disk.
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.Pp
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This document assumes that you are familiar with how to generate kernels,
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how to properly configure disks and devices in a kernel
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configuration file, and how to partition disks.
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.Pp
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In order to compile in support for the
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.Nm ,
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you must add a line similar
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to the following to your kernel configuration file:
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.Pp
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.Dl "device ccd # concatenated disk devices"
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.Pp
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As of the
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.Fx 3.0
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release, you do not need to
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configure your kernel with
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.Nm
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but may instead use it as a kernel loadable
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module.
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Simply running
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.Xr ccdconfig 8
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will load the module into the kernel.
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.Pp
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A
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.Nm
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may be either serially concatenated or interleaved.
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To serially
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concatenate the partitions, specify the interleave factor of 0.
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Note that mirroring may not be used with an interleave factor of 0.
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.Pp
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There is a run-time utility that is used for configuring
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.Nm Ns s .
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See
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.Xr ccdconfig 8
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for more information.
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.Ss The Interleave Factor
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If a
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.Nm
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is interleaved correctly, a
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.Dq striping
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effect is achieved, which can increase sequential read/write
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performance.
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The interleave factor is expressed in units of
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.Dv DEV_BSIZE
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(usually 512 bytes).
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For large writes, the optimum interleave factor
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is typically the size of a track, while for large reads, it is about a
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quarter of a track.
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(Note that this changes greatly depending on the
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number and speed of disks.)
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For instance, with eight 7,200 RPM drives
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on two Fast-Wide SCSI buses, this translates to about 128 for writes
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and 32 for reads.
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A larger interleave tends to work better when the
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disk is taking a multitasking load by localizing the file I/O from
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any given process onto a single disk.
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You lose sequential performance when
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you do this, but sequential performance is not usually an issue with a
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multitasking load.
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.Pp
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An interleave factor must be specified when using a mirroring configuration,
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even when you have only two disks (i.e., the layout winds up being the same
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no matter what the interleave factor).
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The interleave factor will determine
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how I/O is broken up, however, and a value 128 or greater is recommended.
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.Pp
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.Nm
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has an option for a parity disk, but does not currently implement it.
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.Pp
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The best performance is achieved if all component disks have the same
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geometry and size.
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Optimum striping cannot occur with different
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disk types.
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.Pp
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For random-access oriented workloads, such as news servers, a larger
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interleave factor (e.g., 65,536) is more desirable.
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Note that there
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is not much
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.Nm
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can do to speed up applications that are seek-time limited.
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Larger
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interleave factors will at least reduce the chance of having to seek
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two disk-heads to read one directory or a file.
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.Ss Disk Mirroring
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You can configure the
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.Nm
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to
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.Dq mirror
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any even number of disks.
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See
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.Xr ccdconfig 8
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for how to specify the necessary flags.
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For example, if you have a
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.Nm
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configuration specifying four disks, the first two disks will be mirrored with
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the second two disks.
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A write will be run to both sides of
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the mirror.
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A read will be run to either side of the mirror depending
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on what the driver believes to be most optimal.
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If the read fails,
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the driver will automatically attempt to read the same sector from the
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other side of the mirror.
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Currently
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.Nm
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uses a dual seek zone model to optimize reads for a multi-tasking load
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rather than a sequential load.
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.Pp
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In an event of a disk
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failure, you can use
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.Xr dd 1
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to recover the failed disk.
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.Pp
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Note that a one-disk
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.Nm
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is not the same as the original partition.
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In particular, this means
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if you have a file system on a two-disk mirrored
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.Nm
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and one of the disks fail, you cannot mount and use the remaining
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partition as itself; you have to configure it as a one-disk
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.Nm .
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You cannot replace a disk in a mirrored
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.Nm
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partition without first backing up the partition, then replacing the disk,
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then restoring the partition.
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.Sh WARNINGS
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If just one (or more) of the disks in a
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.Nm
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fails, the entire
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file system will be lost unless you are mirroring the disks.
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.Pp
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If one of the disks in a mirror is lost, you should still
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be able to back up your data.
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If a write error occurs, however, data
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read from that sector may be non-deterministic.
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It may return the data
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prior to the write or it may return the data that was written.
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When a
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write error occurs, you should recover and regenerate the data as soon
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as possible.
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.Pp
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Changing the interleave or other parameters for a
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.Nm
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disk usually destroys whatever data previously existed on that disk.
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.Sh FILES
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.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /dev/ccd*"
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.It Pa /dev/ccd*
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.Nm
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device special files
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr dd 1 ,
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.Xr ccdconfig 8 ,
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.Xr config 8 ,
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.Xr disklabel 8 ,
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.Xr fsck 8 ,
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.Xr mount 8 ,
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.Xr newfs 8 ,
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.Xr vinum 8
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.Sh HISTORY
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The concatenated disk driver was originally written at the University of
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Utah.
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