BIOCTL(8) | System Manager's Manual | BIOCTL(8)

# NAME

`bioctl` — RAID management interface

# SYNOPSIS

`bioctl` | device command [arg [...]]

# DESCRIPTION

RAID device drivers which support management functionality can register their services with the bio(4) driver. `bioctl` then can be used to manage the RAID controller's properties.

# COMMANDS

The following commands are supported:

`show` [disks | volumes]
  Without any argument by default `bioctl` will show information about all volumes and the logical disks used on them. If disks is specified, only information about physical disks will be shown. If volumes is specified, only information about the volumes will be shown.
`alarm` [disable | enable | silence | test]
  Control the RAID card's alarm functionality, if supported. By default if no argument is specified, its current state will be shown. Optionally the disable, enable, silence, or test arguments may be specified to enable, disable, silence, or test the RAID card's alarm.
`blink` start channel:target.lun | stop channel:target.lun
  Instruct the device at channel:target.lun to start or cease blinking, if there's ses(4) support in the enclosure.
`hotspare` add channel:target.lun | remove channel:target.lun
  Create or remove a hot-spare drive at location channel:target.lun.
`passthru` add DISKID channel:target.lun | remove channel:target.lun
  Create or remove a pass-through device. The DISKID argument specifies the disk that will be used for the new device, and it will be created at the location channel:target.lun. NOTE: Removing a pass-through device that has a mounted filesystem will lead to undefined behaviour.
`check` start VOLID | stop VOLID
  Start or stop consistency volume check in the volume with index VOLID. NOTE: Not many RAID controllers support this feature.
`create volume` VOLID DISKIDs [SIZE] STRIPE RAID_LEVEL channel:target.lun
  Create a volume at index VOLID. The DISKIDs argument will specify the first and last disk, i.e.: 0-3 will use the disks 0, 1, 2, and 3. The SIZE argument is optional and may be specified if not all available disk space is wanted (also dependent of the RAID_LEVEL). The volume will have a stripe size defined in the STRIPE argument and it will be located at channel:target.lun.
`remove volume` VOLID channel:target.lun
  Remove a volume at index VOLID and located at channel:target.lun. NOTE: Removing a RAID volume that has a mounted filesystem will lead to undefined behaviour.

# EXAMPLES

The following command, executed from the command line, shows the status of the volumes and its logical disks on the RAID controller:

    $ bioctl arcmsr0 show
    Volume Status       Size         Device/Label   RAID Level Stripe
    =================================================================
         0 Building     468G  sd0 ARC-1210-VOL#00       RAID 6  128KB  0% done
       0:0 Online       234G         0:0.0 noencl <WDC WD2500YS-01SHB1 20.06C06>
       0:1 Online       234G         0:1.0 noencl <WDC WD2500YS-01SHB1 20.06C06>
       0:2 Online       234G         0:2.0 noencl <WDC WD2500YS-01SHB1 20.06C06>
       0:3 Online       234G         0:3.0 noencl <WDC WD2500YS-01SHB1 20.06C06>

To create a RAID 5 volume on the SCSI 0:15.0 location on the disks 0, 1, 2, and 3, with stripe size of 64Kb on the first volume ID, using all available free space on the disks:

`$ bioctl arcmsr0 create volume 0 0-3 64 5 0:15.0`

To remove the volume 0 previously created at the SCSI 0:15.0 location:

`$ bioctl arcmsr0 remove volume 0 0:15.0`

# SEE ALSO

arcmsr(4), ataraid(4), bio(4), cac(4), ciss(4), mfi(4), mfii(4), mpii(4), mpt(4)

# HISTORY

The `bioctl` command appeared in OpenBSD 3.8, it first appeared in NetBSD 4.0 and was rewritten for NetBSD 5.0.

# AUTHORS

The `bioctl` interface was written by Marco Peereboom <marco@openbsd.org> and was rewritten with multiple features by
Juan Romero Pardines <xtraeme@NetBSD.org>.

May 7, 2019 | NetBSD 11.0