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diff --git a/doc/gluster.8 b/doc/gluster.8 index 3c78fb8b19a..b23e2c8917c 100644 --- a/doc/gluster.8 +++ b/doc/gluster.8 @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ .\" cases as published by the Free Software Foundation. .\" .\" -.TH Gluster 8 "Gluster command line utility" "07 March 2011" "Gluster Inc." +.TH Gluster 8 "Gluster command line utility" "22 November 2012" "Gluster Inc." .SH NAME gluster - Gluster Console Manager (command line utility) .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -36,9 +36,11 @@ The Gluster Console Manager is a command line utility for elastic volume managem \fB\ volume info [all|<VOLNAME>] \fR Display information about all volumes, or the specified volume. .TP -\fB\ volume create <NEW-VOLNAME> [stripe <COUNT>] [replica <COUNT>] [transport <tcp|rdma|tcp,rdma>] <NEW-BRICK> ... \fR +\fB\ volume create <NEW-VOLNAME> [device vg] [stripe <COUNT>] [replica <COUNT>] [transport <tcp|rdma|tcp,rdma>] <NEW-BRICK> ... \fR Create a new volume of the specified type using the specified bricks and transport type (the default transport type is tcp). To create a volume with both transports (tcp and rdma), give 'transport tcp,rdma' as an option. +device vg parameter specifies volume should use block backend instead of regular posix backend. In this case NEW-BRICK should specify an existing Volume Group and there can be only one brick for Block backend volumes. \fR +Refer Block backend section for more details .TP \fB\ volume delete <VOLNAME> \fR Delete the specified volume. @@ -57,6 +59,9 @@ Set the volume options. .TP \fB\ volume help \fR Display help for the volume command. +.SS "Block backend" +.TP +By specifying "device vg" in volume create, a volume capable of exporting block devices(ie Volume Groups (VG)) is created. As of now exporting only VG is supported. While creating block backend volume the "VG" (mentioned in NEW-BRICK) must exist (ie created with vgcreate). VG is exported as a directory and all LVs under that VG will be exported as files. Please refer BD commands section for Block backend related commands .SS "Brick Commands" .PP .TP @@ -105,6 +110,20 @@ Display the status of peers. .TP \fB\ peer help \fR Display help for the peer command. +.SS "BD commands" +.TP +\fB\ bd create <VOLNAME:/path-to-image> <size> \fR +Creates a new image of given size in the volume. Size can be suffixed with MB, GB etc, if nothing specified MB is taken as default. +.TP +\fB\ bd delete <VOLNAME:/path-to-image> \fR +Deletes a image in the volume +.TP +\fB\ bd clone <VOLNAME:/path-to-image> <new-image> \fR +Clones an existing image (full clone) +.TP +\fB\ bd snapshot <VOLNAME:/path-to-image> <new-image> <size> \fR +Creates a linked clone of an existing image with given size. Size can be suffixed with MB, GB etc, if nothing specified MB is taken as default. + .SS "Other Commands" .TP \fB\ help \fR |