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35.Dd February 12, 2010
36.Dt HAMMER 8
37.Os
38.Sh NAME
39.Nm hammer
40.Nd HAMMER file system utility
41.Sh SYNOPSIS
42.Nm
43.Fl h
44.Nm
45.Op Fl 2BqrvXy
46.Op Fl b Ar bandwidth
47.Op Fl c Ar cyclefile
48.Op Fl f Ar blkdevs
49.\" .Op Fl s Ar linkpath
50.Op Fl i Ar delay
51.Op Fl p Ar ssh-port
52.Op Fl t Ar seconds
53.Op Fl C Ar cachesize Ns Op Ns Cm \&: Ns Ar readahead
54.Op Fl S Ar splitsize
55.Ar command
56.Op Ar argument ...
57.Sh DESCRIPTION
58This manual page documents the
59.Nm
60utility which provides miscellaneous functions related to managing a
61.Nm HAMMER
62file system.
63For a general introduction to the
64.Nm HAMMER
65file system, its features, and
66examples on how to set up and maintain one, see
67.Xr HAMMER 5 .
68.Pp
69The options are as follows:
70.Bl -tag -width indent
71.It Fl h
72Get help.
73.It Fl 2
74Tell the mirror commands to use a 2-way protocol, which allows
75automatic negotiation of transaction id ranges.
76This option is automatically enabled by the
77.Cm mirror-copy
78command.
79.It Fl b Ar bandwidth
80Specify a bandwidth limit in bytes per second for mirroring streams.
81This option is typically used to prevent batch mirroring operations from
82loading down the machine.
83The bandwidth may be suffixed with
84.Cm k , m ,
85or
86.Cm g
87to specify values in kilobytes, megabytes, and gigabytes per second.
88If no suffix is specified, bytes per second is assumed.
89.Pp
90Unfortunately this is only applicable to the pre-compression bandwidth
91when compression is used, so a better solution would probably be to
92use a
93.Xr ipfw 8
94pipe or a
95.Xr pf 4
96queue.
97.It Fl c Ar cyclefile
98When pruning, rebalancing or reblocking you can tell the utility
99to start at the object id stored in the specified file.
100If the file does not exist
101.Nm
102will start at the beginning.
103If
104.Nm
105is told to run for a
106specific period of time and is unable to complete the operation it will
107write out the current object id so the next run can pick up where it left off.
108If
109.Nm
110runs to completion it will delete
111.Ar cyclefile .
112.It Fl f Ar blkdevs
113Specify the volumes making up a
114.Nm HAMMER
115file system.
116.Ar Blkdevs
117is a colon-separated list of devices, each specifying a
118.Nm HAMMER
119volume.
120.It Fl i Ar delay
121When maintaining a streaming mirroring this option specifies the
122minimum delay after a batch ends before the next batch is allowed
123to start.
124The default is five seconds.
125.It Fl p Ar ssh-port
126This passes the
127.Fl p Ar ssh-port
128option to
129.Xr ssh 1
130when using a remote
131specification for the source and/or destination.
132.It Fl q
133Decrease verboseness.
134May be specified multiple times.
135.It Fl r
136Specify recursion for those commands which support it.
137.It Fl t Ar seconds
138When pruning, rebalancing or reblocking you can tell the utility to stop
139after a certain period of time.
140This option is used along with the
141.Fl c Ar cyclefile
142option to prune, rebalance or reblock incrementally.
143.It Fl v
144Increase verboseness.
145May be specified multiple times.
146.It Fl y
147Force "yes" for any interactive question.
148.It Fl B
149Bulk transfer.
150.Cm Mirror-stream
151will not attempt to break-up large initial bulk transfers into smaller
152pieces.
153This can save time but if the link is lost in the middle of the
154initial bulk transfer you will have to start over from scratch.
155This option is not recommended.
156For more information see the
157.Fl S
158option.
159.It Fl C Ar cachesize Ns Op Ns Cm \&: Ns Ar readahead
160Set the memory cache size for any raw
161.Tn I/O .
162The default is 16MB.
163A suffix of
164.Cm k
165for kilobytes and
166.Cm m
167for megabytes is allowed,
168else the cache size is specified in bytes.
169.Pp
170The read-behind/read-ahead defaults to 4
171.Nm HAMMER
172blocks.
173.Pp
174This option is typically only used with diagnostic commands
175as kernel-supported commands will use the kernel's buffer cache.
176.It Fl S Ar splitsize
177Specify the bulk splitup size in bytes for mirroring streams.
178When a
179.Cm mirror-stream
180is first started
181.Nm
182will do an initial run-through of the data to calculate good
183transaction ids to cut up the bulk transfers, creating
184restart points in case the stream is interrupted.
185If we don't do this and the stream is interrupted it might
186have to start all over again.
187The default is a splitsize of 4G.
188.Pp
189At the moment the run-through is disk-bandwidth-heavy but some
190future version will limit the run-through to just the B-Tree
191records and not the record data.
192.Pp
193The splitsize may be suffixed with
194.Cm k , m ,
195or
196.Cm g
197to specify values in kilobytes, megabytes, or gigabytes.
198If no suffix is specified, bytes is assumed.
199.Pp
200When mirroring very large filesystems the minimum recommended
201split side is 4G.
202A small split size may wind up generating a great deal of overhead
203but very little actual incremental data and is not recommended.
204.It Fl X
205Enable compression for any remote ssh specifications.
206Unfortunately the
207.Fl C
208option has already been reserved for other purposes so we had to use
209a different letter.
210This option is typically used with the mirroring directives.
211.It Fl y
212Force "yes" for any interactive question.
213.El
214.Pp
215The commands are as follows:
216.Bl -tag -width indent
217.\" ==== synctid ====
218.It Cm synctid Ar filesystem Op Cm quick
219Generates a guaranteed, formal 64 bit transaction id representing the
220current state of the specified
221.Nm HAMMER
222file system.
223The file system will be synced to the media.
224.Pp
225If the
226.Cm quick
227keyword is specified the file system will be soft-synced, meaning that a
228crash might still undo the state of the file system as of the transaction
229id returned but any new modifications will occur after the returned
230transaction id as expected.
231.Pp
232This operation does not create a snapshot.
233It is meant to be used
234to track temporary fine-grained changes to a subset of files and
235will only remain valid for
236.Ql @@
237snapshot access purposes for the
238.Cm prune-min
239period configured for the PFS.
240If you desire a real snapshot then the
241.Cm snapq
242directive may be what you are looking for.
243.\" ==== bstats ====
244.It Cm bstats Op Ar interval
245Output
246.Nm HAMMER
247B-Tree statistics until interrupted.
248Pause
249.Ar interval
250seconds between each display.
251The default interval is one second.
252.\" ==== iostats ====
253.It Cm iostats Op Ar interval
254Output
255.Nm HAMMER
256.Tn I/O
257statistics until interrupted.
258Pause
259.Ar interval
260seconds between each display.
261The default interval is one second.
262.\" ==== history ====
263.It Cm history Ar path ...
264Show the modification history for
265.Nm HAMMER
266file's inode and data.
267.\" ==== blockmap ====
268.It Cm blockmap
269Dump the blockmap for the file system.
270The
271.Nm HAMMER
272blockmap is two-layer
273blockmap representing the maximum possible file system size of 1 Exabyte.
274Needless to say the second layer is only present for blocks which exist.
275.Nm HAMMER Ns 's
276blockmap represents 8-Megabyte blocks, called big-blocks.
277Each big-block has an append
278point, a free byte count, and a typed zone id which allows content to be
279reverse engineered to some degree.
280.Pp
281In
282.Nm HAMMER
283allocations are essentially appended to a selected big-block using
284the append offset and deducted from the free byte count.
285When space is freed the free byte count is adjusted but
286.Nm HAMMER
287does not track holes in big-blocks for reallocation.
288A big-block must be completely freed, either
289through normal file system operations or through reblocking, before
290it can be reused.
291.Pp
292Data blocks can be shared by deducting the space used from the free byte
293count for each shared references, though
294.Nm HAMMER
295does not yet make use of this feature.
296This means the free byte count can legally go negative.
297.Pp
298This command needs the
299.Fl f
300flag.
301.\" ==== checkmap ====
302.It Cm checkmap
303Check the blockmap allocation count.
304.Nm
305will scan the B-Tree, collect allocation information, and
306construct a blockmap in-memory.  It will then check that blockmap
307against the on-disk blockmap.
308.Pp
309This command needs the
310.Fl f
311flag.
312.\" ==== show ====
313.It Cm show Op Ar lo Ns Cm \&: Ns Ar objid
314Dump the B-Tree.
315By default this command will validate all B-Tree
316linkages and CRCs, including data CRCs, and will report the most verbose
317information it can dig up.
318Any errors will show up with a
319.Ql B
320in column 1 along with various
321other error flags.
322.Pp
323If you specify a localization field or a localization:obj_id field,
324.Ar lo Ns Cm \&: Ns Ar objid ,
325the dump will
326search for the key printing nodes as it recurses down, and then
327will iterate forwards.
328These fields are specified in HEX.
329Note that the pfsid is the top 16 bits of the 32 bit localization
330field so PFS #1 would be 00010000.
331.Pp
332If you use
333.Fl q
334the command will report less information about the inode contents.
335.Pp
336If you use
337.Fl qq
338the command will not report the content of the inode or other typed
339data at all.
340.Pp
341If you use
342.Fl qqq
343the command will not report volume header information, big-block fill
344ratios, mirror transaction ids, or report or check data CRCs.
345B-Tree CRCs and linkages are still checked.
346.Pp
347This command needs the
348.Fl f
349flag.
350.\" ==== show-undo ====
351.It Cm show-undo
352.Nm ( HAMMER
353VERSION 4+)
354Dump the UNDO map.
355.Pp
356This command needs the
357.Fl f
358flag.
359.\" .It Ar blockmap
360.\" Dump the B-Tree, record, large-data, and small-data blockmaps, showing
361.\" physical block assignments and free space percentages.
362.\" ==== recover ====
363.It Cm recover Ar targetdir
364This is a low level command which operates on the filesystem image and
365attempts to locate and recover files from a corrupted filesystem.  The
366entire image is scanned linearly looking for B-Tree nodes.  Any node
367found which passes its crc test is scanned for file, inode, and directory
368fragments and the target directory is populated with the resulting data.
369files and directories in the target directory are initially named after
370the object id and are renamed as fragmentory information is processed.
371.Pp
372This command keeps track of filename/objid translations and may eat a
373considerably amount of memory while operating.
374.Pp
375This command is literally the last line of defense when it comes to
376recovering data from a dead filesystem.
377.\" ==== namekey1 ====
378.It Cm namekey1 Ar filename
379Generate a
380.Nm HAMMER
38164 bit directory hash for the specified file name, using
382the original directory hash algorithm in version 1 of the file system.
383The low 32 bits are used as an iterator for hash collisions and will be
384output as 0.
385.\" ==== namekey2 ====
386.It Cm namekey2 Ar filename
387Generate a
388.Nm HAMMER
38964 bit directory hash for the specified file name, using
390the new directory hash algorithm in version 2 of the file system.
391The low 32 bits are still used as an iterator but will start out containing
392part of the hash key.
393.\" ==== namekey32 ====
394.It Cm namekey32 Ar filename
395Generate the top 32 bits of a
396.Nm HAMMER
39764 bit directory hash for the specified file name.
398.\" ==== info ====
399.It Cm info
400Shows extended information about all the mounted
401.Nm HAMMER
402file systems.
403The information is divided into sections:
404.Bl -tag -width indent
405.It Volume identification
406General information, like the label of the
407.Nm HAMMER
408filesystem, the number of volumes it contains, the FSID, and the
409.Nm HAMMER
410version being used.
411.It Big block information
412Big block statistics, such as total, used, reserved and free big blocks.
413.It Space information
414Information about space used on the filesystem.
415Currently total size, used, reserved and free space are displayed.
416.It PFS information
417Basic information about the PFSs currently present on a
418.Nm HAMMER
419filesystem.
420.Pp
421.Dq PFS ID
422is the ID of the PFS, with 0 being the root PFS.
423.Dq Snaps
424is the current snapshot count on the PFS.
425.Dq Mounted on
426displays the mount point of the PFS is currently mounted on (if any).
427.El
428.\" ==== cleanup ====
429.It Cm cleanup Op Ar filesystem ...
430This is a meta-command which executes snapshot, prune, rebalance and reblock
431commands on the specified
432.Nm HAMMER
433file systems.
434If no
435.Ar filesystem
436is specified this command will clean-up all
437.Nm HAMMER
438file systems in use, including PFS's.
439To do this it will scan all
440.Nm HAMMER
441and
442.Nm null
443mounts, extract PFS id's, and clean-up each PFS found.
444.Pp
445This command will access a snapshots
446directory and a configuration file for each
447.Ar filesystem ,
448creating them if necessary.
449.Bl -tag -width indent
450.It Nm HAMMER No version 2-
451The configuration file is
452.Pa config
453in the snapshots directory which defaults to
454.Pa <pfs>/snapshots .
455.It Nm HAMMER No version 3+
456The configuration file is saved in file system meta-data, see
457.Nm
458.Cm config .
459The snapshots directory defaults to
460.Pa /var/hammer/<pfs>
461.Pa ( /var/hammer/root
462for root mount).
463.El
464.Pp
465The format of the configuration file is:
466.Bd -literal -offset indent
467snapshots  <period> <retention-time> [any]
468prune      <period> <max-runtime>
469rebalance  <period> <max-runtime>
470reblock    <period> <max-runtime>
471recopy     <period> <max-runtime>
472.Ed
473.Pp
474Defaults are:
475.Bd -literal -offset indent
476snapshots  1d 60d  # 0d 0d  for PFS /tmp, /var/tmp, /usr/obj
477prune      1d 5m
478rebalance  1d 5m
479reblock    1d 5m
480recopy     30d 10m
481.Ed
482.Pp
483Time is given with a suffix of
484.Cm d ,
485.Cm h ,
486.Cm m
487or
488.Cm s
489meaning day, hour, minute and second.
490.Pp
491If the
492.Cm snapshots
493directive has a period of 0 and a retention time of 0
494then snapshot generation is disabled, removal of old snapshots are
495disabled, and prunes will use
496.Cm prune-everything .
497If the
498.Cm snapshots
499directive has a period of 0 but a non-zero retention time
500then this command will not create any new snapshots but will remove old
501snapshots it finds based on the retention time.
502.Pp
503By default only snapshots in the form
504.Ql snap- Ns Ar yyyymmdd Ns Op - Ns Ar HHMM
505are processed.
506If the
507.Cm any
508directive is specified as a third argument on the
509.Cm snapshots
510config line then any softlink of the form
511.Ql *- Ns Ar yyyymmdd Ns Op - Ns Ar HHMM
512or
513.Ql *. Ns Ar yyyymmdd Ns Op - Ns Ar HHMM
514will be processed.
515.Pp
516A prune max-runtime of 0 means unlimited.
517.Pp
518If period hasn't passed since the previous
519.Cm cleanup
520run nothing is done.
521For example a day has passed when midnight is passed (localtime).
522By default,
523.Dx
524is set up to run
525.Nm Ar cleanup
526nightly via
527.Xr periodic 8 .
528.Pp
529The default configuration file will create a daily snapshot, do a daily
530pruning, rebalancing and reblocking run and a monthly recopy run.
531Reblocking is defragmentation with a level of 95%,
532and recopy is full defragmentation.
533.Pp
534By default prune and rebalance operations are time limited to 5 minutes,
535reblock operations to a bit over 5 minutes,
536and recopy operations to a bit over 10 minutes.
537Reblocking and recopy runs are each broken down into four separate functions:
538btree, inodes, dirs and data.
539Each function is time limited to the time given in the configuration file,
540but the btree, inodes and dirs functions usually does not take very long time,
541full defragmentation is always used for these three functions.
542Also note that this directive will by default disable snapshots on
543the following PFS's:
544.Pa /tmp ,
545.Pa /var/tmp
546and
547.Pa /usr/obj .
548.Pp
549The defaults may be adjusted by modifying the configuration file.
550The pruning and reblocking commands automatically maintain a cyclefile
551for incremental operation.
552If you interrupt (^C) the program the cyclefile will be updated,
553but a sub-command
554may continue to run in the background for a few seconds until the
555.Nm HAMMER
556ioctl detects the interrupt.
557The
558.Cm snapshots
559PFS option can be set to use another location for the snapshots directory.
560.Pp
561Work on this command is still in progress.
562Expected additions:
563An ability to remove snapshots dynamically as the
564file system becomes full.
565.\" ==== config ====
566.It Cm config Op Ar filesystem Op Ar configfile
567.Nm ( HAMMER
568VERSION 3+)
569Show or change configuration for
570.Ar filesystem .
571If zero or one arguments are specified this function dumps the current
572configuration file to stdout.
573Zero arguments specifies the PFS containing the current directory.
574This configuration file is stored in file system meta-data.
575If two arguments are specified this function installs a new config file.
576.Pp
577In
578.Nm HAMMER
579versions less than 3 the configuration file is by default stored in
580.Pa <pfs>/snapshots/config ,
581but in all later versions the configuration file is stored in file system
582meta-data.
583.\" ==== viconfig ====
584.It Cm viconfig Op Ar filesystem
585.Nm ( HAMMER
586VERSION 3+)
587Edit the configuration file and reinstall into file system meta-data when done.
588Zero arguments specifies the PFS containing the current directory.
589.\" ==== volume-add ====
590.It Cm volume-add Ar device Ar filesystem
591This command will format
592.Ar device
593and add all of its space to
594.Ar filesystem .
595.Pp
596.Em NOTE!
597All existing data contained on
598.Ar device
599will be destroyed by this operation!
600If
601.Ar device
602contains a valid
603.Nm HAMMER
604file system, formatting will be denied.
605You can overcome this sanity check
606by using
607.Xr dd 1
608to erase the beginning sectors of the device.
609Also remember that you have to specify
610.Ar device ,
611together with any other device that make up the file system,
612colon-separated to
613.Pa /etc/fstab
614and
615.Xr mount_hammer 8 .
616.\" ==== volume-del ====
617.It Cm volume-del Ar device Ar filesystem
618This command will remove volume
619.Ar device
620from
621.Ar filesystem .
622.Pp
623Remember that you have to remove
624.Ar device
625from the colon-separated list in
626.Pa /etc/fstab
627and
628.Xr mount_hammer 8 .
629.\" ==== snapshot ====
630.It Cm snapshot Oo Ar filesystem Oc Ar snapshot-dir
631.It Cm snapshot Ar filesystem Ar snapshot-dir Op Ar note
632Takes a snapshot of the file system either explicitly given by
633.Ar filesystem
634or implicitly derived from the
635.Ar snapshot-dir
636argument and creates a symlink in the directory provided by
637.Ar snapshot-dir
638pointing to the snapshot.
639If
640.Ar snapshot-dir
641is not a directory, it is assumed to be a format string passed to
642.Xr strftime 3
643with the current time as parameter.
644If
645.Ar snapshot-dir
646refers to an existing directory, a default format string of
647.Ql snap-%Y%d%m-%H%M
648is assumed and used as name for the newly created symlink.
649.Pp
650Snapshot is a per PFS operation, so a
651.Nm HAMMER
652file system and each PFS in it have to be snapshot separately.
653.Pp
654Example, assuming that
655.Pa /mysnapshots
656is on file system
657.Pa /
658and that
659.Pa /obj
660and
661.Pa /usr
662are file systems on their own, the following invocations:
663.Bd -literal -offset indent
664hammer snapshot /mysnapshots
665
666hammer snapshot /mysnapshots/%Y-%m-%d
667
668hammer snapshot /obj /mysnapshots/obj-%Y-%m-%d
669
670hammer snapshot /usr /my/snaps/usr "note"
671.Ed
672.Pp
673Would create symlinks similar to:
674.Bd -literal -offset indent
675/mysnapshots/snap-20080627-1210 -> /@@0x10d2cd05b7270d16
676
677/mysnapshots/2008-06-27 -> /@@0x10d2cd05b7270d16
678
679/mysnapshots/obj-2008-06-27 -> /obj@@0x10d2cd05b7270d16
680
681/my/snaps/usr/snap-20080627-1210 -> /usr@@0x10d2cd05b7270d16
682.Ed
683.Pp
684When run on a
685.Nm HAMMER
686version 3+ file system the snapshot is also recorded in file system meta-data
687along with the optional
688.Ar note .
689See the
690.Cm snapls
691directive.
692.\" ==== snap* ====
693.It Cm snap Ar path Op Ar note
694.Nm ( HAMMER
695VERSION 3+)
696Create a snapshot for the PFS containing
697.Ar path
698and create a snapshot softlink.
699If the path specified is a
700directory a standard snapshot softlink will be created in the directory.
701The snapshot softlink points to the base of the mounted PFS.
702.It Cm snaplo Ar path Op Ar note
703.Nm ( HAMMER
704VERSION 3+)
705Create a snapshot for the PFS containing
706.Ar path
707and create a snapshot softlink.
708If the path specified is a
709directory a standard snapshot softlink will be created in the directory.
710The snapshot softlink points into the directory it is contained in.
711.It Cm snapq Ar dir Op Ar note
712.Nm ( HAMMER
713VERSION 3+)
714Create a snapshot for the PFS containing the specified directory but do
715not create a softlink.
716Instead output a path which can be used to access
717the directory via the snapshot.
718.Pp
719An absolute or relative path may be specified.
720The path will be used as-is as a prefix in the path output to stdout.
721As with the other
722snap and snapshot directives the snapshot transaction id will be registered
723in the file system meta-data.
724.It Cm snaprm Ar path Ar ...
725.It Cm snaprm Ar transid Ar ...
726.It Cm snaprm Ar filesystem Ar transid Ar ...
727.Nm ( HAMMER
728VERSION 3+)
729Remove a snapshot given its softlink or transaction id.
730If specifying a transaction id
731the snapshot is removed from file system meta-data but you are responsible
732for removing any related softlinks.
733.Pp
734If a softlink path is specified the filesystem and transaction id
735is derived from the contents of the softlink.
736If just a transaction id is specified it is assumed to be a snapshot
737in the HAMMER filesystem you are currently chdir'd into.
738You can also specify the filesystem and transaction id explicitly.
739.It Cm snapls Op Ar path ...
740.Nm ( HAMMER
741VERSION 3+)
742Dump the snapshot meta-data for PFSs containing each
743.Ar path
744listing all available snapshots and their notes.
745If no arguments are specified snapshots for the PFS containing the
746current directory are listed.
747This is the definitive list of snapshots for the file system.
748.\" ==== prune ====
749.It Cm prune Ar softlink-dir
750Prune the file system based on previously created snapshot softlinks.
751Pruning is the act of deleting file system history.
752The
753.Cm prune
754command will delete file system history such that
755the file system state is retained for the given snapshots,
756and all history after the latest snapshot.
757By setting the per PFS parameter
758.Cm prune-min ,
759history is guaranteed to be saved at least this time interval.
760All other history is deleted.
761.Pp
762The target directory is expected to contain softlinks pointing to
763snapshots of the file systems you wish to retain.
764The directory is scanned non-recursively and the mount points and
765transaction ids stored in the softlinks are extracted and sorted.
766The file system is then explicitly pruned according to what is found.
767Cleaning out portions of the file system is as simple as removing a
768snapshot softlink and then running the
769.Cm prune
770command.
771.Pp
772As a safety measure pruning only occurs if one or more softlinks are found
773containing the
774.Ql @@
775snapshot id extension.
776Currently the scanned softlink directory must contain softlinks pointing
777to a single
778.Nm HAMMER
779mount.
780The softlinks may specify absolute or relative paths.
781Softlinks must use 20-character
782.Ql @@0x%016llx
783transaction ids, as might be returned from
784.Nm Cm synctid Ar filesystem .
785.Pp
786Pruning is a per PFS operation, so a
787.Nm HAMMER
788file system and each PFS in it have to be pruned separately.
789.Pp
790Note that pruning a file system may not immediately free-up space,
791though typically some space will be freed if a large number of records are
792pruned out.
793The file system must be reblocked to completely recover all available space.
794.Pp
795Example, lets say your that you didn't set
796.Cm prune-min ,
797and snapshot directory contains the following links:
798.Bd -literal -offset indent
799lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  29 May 31 17:57 snap1 ->
800/usr/obj/@@0x10d2cd05b7270d16
801
802lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  29 May 31 17:58 snap2 ->
803/usr/obj/@@0x10d2cd13f3fde98f
804
805lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  29 May 31 17:59 snap3 ->
806/usr/obj/@@0x10d2cd222adee364
807.Ed
808.Pp
809If you were to run the
810.Cm prune
811command on this directory, then the
812.Nm HAMMER
813.Pa /usr/obj
814mount will be pruned to retain the above three snapshots.
815In addition, history for modifications made to the file system older than
816the oldest snapshot will be destroyed and history for potentially fine-grained
817modifications made to the file system more recently than the most recent
818snapshot will be retained.
819.Pp
820If you then delete the
821.Pa snap2
822softlink and rerun the
823.Cm prune
824command,
825history for modifications pertaining to that snapshot would be destroyed.
826.Pp
827In
828.Nm HAMMER
829file system versions 3+ this command also scans the snapshots stored
830in the file system meta-data and includes them in the prune.
831.\" ==== prune-everything ====
832.It Cm prune-everything Ar filesystem
833This command will remove all historical records from the file system.
834This directive is not normally used on a production system.
835.Pp
836This command does not remove snapshot softlinks but will delete all
837snapshots recorded in file system meta-data (for file system version 3+).
838The user is responsible for deleting any softlinks.
839.Pp
840Pruning is a per PFS operation, so a
841.Nm HAMMER
842file system and each PFS in it have to be pruned separately.
843.\" ==== rebalance ====
844.It Cm rebalance Ar filesystem Op Ar saturation_percentage
845This command will rebalance the B-Tree, nodes with small number of
846elements will be combined and element counts will be smoothed out
847between nodes.
848.Pp
849The saturation percentage is between 50% and 100%.
850The default is 75% (the
851.Sq %
852suffix is not needed).
853.Pp
854Rebalancing is a per PFS operation, so a
855.Nm HAMMER
856file system and each PFS in it have to be rebalanced separately.
857.\" ==== reblock* ====
858.It Cm reblock Ar filesystem Op Ar fill_percentage
859.It Cm reblock-btree Ar filesystem Op Ar fill_percentage
860.It Cm reblock-inodes Ar filesystem Op Ar fill_percentage
861.It Cm reblock-dirs Ar filesystem Op Ar fill_percentage
862.It Cm reblock-data Ar filesystem Op Ar fill_percentage
863Attempt to defragment and free space for reuse by reblocking a live
864.Nm HAMMER
865file system.
866Big-blocks cannot be reused by
867.Nm HAMMER
868until they are completely free.
869This command also has the effect of reordering all elements, effectively
870defragmenting the file system.
871.Pp
872The default fill percentage is 100% and will cause the file system to be
873completely defragmented.
874All specified element types will be reallocated and rewritten.
875If you wish to quickly free up space instead try specifying
876a smaller fill percentage, such as 90% or 80% (the
877.Sq %
878suffix is not needed).
879.Pp
880Since this command may rewrite the entire contents of the disk it is
881best to do it incrementally from a
882.Xr cron 8
883job along with the
884.Fl c Ar cyclefile
885and
886.Fl t Ar seconds
887options to limit the run time.
888The file system would thus be defragmented over long period of time.
889.Pp
890It is recommended that separate invocations be used for each data type.
891B-Tree nodes, inodes, and directories are typically the most important
892elements needing defragmentation.
893Data can be defragmented over a longer period of time.
894.Pp
895Reblocking is a per PFS operation, so a
896.Nm HAMMER
897file system and each PFS in it have to be reblocked separately.
898.\" ==== pfs-status ====
899.It Cm pfs-status Ar dirpath ...
900Retrieve the mirroring configuration parameters for the specified
901.Nm HAMMER
902file systems or pseudo-filesystems (PFS's).
903.\" ==== pfs-master ====
904.It Cm pfs-master Ar dirpath Op Ar options
905Create a pseudo-filesystem (PFS) inside a
906.Nm HAMMER
907file system.
908Up to 65535 such file systems can be created.
909Each PFS uses an independent inode numbering space making it suitable
910for use as a replication source or target.
911.Pp
912The
913.Cm pfs-master
914directive creates a PFS that you can read, write, and use as a mirroring
915source.
916.Pp
917It is recommended to use a
918.Nm null
919mount to access a PFS, for more information see
920.Xr HAMMER 5 .
921.\" ==== pfs-slave ====
922.It Cm pfs-slave Ar dirpath Op Ar options
923Create a pseudo-filesystem (PFS) inside a
924.Nm HAMMER
925file system.
926Up to 65535 such file systems can be created.
927Each PFS uses an independent inode numbering space making it suitable
928for use as a replication source or target.
929.Pp
930The
931.Cm pfs-slave
932directive creates a PFS that you can use as a mirroring target.
933You will not be able to access a slave PFS until you have completed the
934first mirroring operation with it as the target (its root directory will
935not exist until then).
936.Pp
937Access to the pfs-slave via the special softlink, as described in the
938.Sx PFS NOTES
939below, allows
940.Nm HAMMER
941to
942dynamically modify the snapshot transaction id by returning a dynamic result
943from
944.Xr readlink 2
945calls.
946.Pp
947A PFS can only be truly destroyed with the
948.Cm pfs-destroy
949directive.
950Removing the softlink will not destroy the underlying PFS.
951.Pp
952It is recommended to use a
953.Nm null
954mount to access a PFS, for more information see
955.Xr HAMMER 5 .
956.\" ==== pfs-update ====
957.It Cm pfs-update Ar dirpath Op Ar options
958Update the configuration parameters for an existing
959.Nm HAMMER
960file system or pseudo-filesystem.
961Options that may be specified:
962.Bl -tag -width indent
963.It Cm sync-beg-tid= Ns Ar 0x16llx
964This is the automatic snapshot access starting transaction id for
965mirroring slaves.
966This parameter is normally updated automatically by the
967.Cm mirror-write
968directive.
969.Pp
970It is important to note that accessing a mirroring slave
971with a transaction id greater than the last fully synchronized transaction
972id can result in an unreliable snapshot since you will be accessing
973data that is still undergoing synchronization.
974.Pp
975Manually modifying this field is dangerous and can result in a broken mirror.
976.It Cm sync-end-tid= Ns Ar 0x16llx
977This is the current synchronization point for mirroring slaves.
978This parameter is normally updated automatically by the
979.Cm mirror-write
980directive.
981.Pp
982Manually modifying this field is dangerous and can result in a broken mirror.
983.It Cm shared-uuid= Ns Ar uuid
984Set the shared UUID for this file system.
985All mirrors must have the same shared UUID.
986For safety purposes the
987.Cm mirror-write
988directives will refuse to operate on a target with a different shared UUID.
989.Pp
990Changing the shared UUID on an existing, non-empty mirroring target,
991including an empty but not completely pruned target,
992can lead to corruption of the mirroring target.
993.It Cm unique-uuid= Ns Ar uuid
994Set the unique UUID for this file system.
995This UUID should not be used anywhere else,
996even on exact copies of the file system.
997.It Cm label= Ns Ar string
998Set a descriptive label for this file system.
999.It Cm snapshots= Ns Ar string
1000Specify the snapshots directory which
1001.Nm
1002.Cm cleanup
1003will use to manage this PFS.
1004.Bl -tag -width indent
1005.It Nm HAMMER No version 2-
1006The snapshots directory does not need to be configured for
1007PFS masters and will default to
1008.Pa <pfs>/snapshots .
1009.Pp
1010PFS slaves are mirroring slaves so you cannot configure a snapshots
1011directory on the slave itself to be managed by the slave's machine.
1012In fact, the slave will likely have a
1013.Pa snapshots
1014sub-directory mirrored
1015from the master, but that directory contains the configuration the master
1016is using for its copy of the file system, not the configuration that we
1017want to use for our slave.
1018.Pp
1019It is recommended that
1020.Pa <fs>/var/slaves/<name>
1021be configured for a PFS slave, where
1022.Pa <fs>
1023is the base
1024.Nm HAMMER
1025file system, and
1026.Pa <name>
1027is an appropriate label.
1028.It Nm HAMMER No version 3+
1029The snapshots directory does not need to be configured for PFS masters or
1030slaves.
1031The snapshots directory defaults to
1032.Pa /var/hammer/<pfs>
1033.Pa ( /var/hammer/root
1034for root mount).
1035.El
1036.Pp
1037You can control snapshot retention on your slave independent of the master.
1038.It Cm snapshots-clear
1039Zero out the
1040.Cm snapshots
1041directory path for this PFS.
1042.It Cm prune-min= Ns Ar N Ns Cm d
1043.It Cm prune-min= Ns Oo Ar N Ns Cm d/ Oc Ns \
1044Ar hh Ns Op Cm \&: Ns Ar mm Ns Op Cm \&: Ns Ar ss
1045Set the minimum fine-grained data retention period.
1046.Nm HAMMER
1047always retains fine-grained history up to the most recent snapshot.
1048You can extend the retention period further by specifying a non-zero
1049pruning minimum.
1050Any snapshot softlinks within the retention period are ignored
1051for the purposes of pruning (the fine grained history is retained).
1052Number of days, hours, minutes and seconds are given as
1053.Ar N , hh , mm
1054and
1055.Ar ss .
1056.Pp
1057Because the transaction id in the snapshot softlink cannot be used
1058to calculate a timestamp,
1059.Nm HAMMER
1060uses the earlier of the
1061.Fa st_ctime
1062or
1063.Fa st_mtime
1064field of the softlink to
1065determine which snapshots fall within the retention period.
1066Users must be sure to retain one of these two fields when manipulating
1067the softlink.
1068.El
1069.\" ==== pfs-upgrade ====
1070.It Cm pfs-upgrade Ar dirpath
1071Upgrade a PFS from slave to master operation.
1072The PFS will be rolled back to the current end synchronization transaction id
1073(removing any partial synchronizations), and will then become writable.
1074.Pp
1075.Em WARNING!
1076.Nm HAMMER
1077currently supports only single masters and using
1078this command can easily result in file system corruption
1079if you don't know what you are doing.
1080.Pp
1081This directive will refuse to run if any programs have open descriptors
1082in the PFS, including programs chdir'd into the PFS.
1083.\" ==== pfs-downgrade ====
1084.It Cm pfs-downgrade Ar dirpath
1085Downgrade a master PFS from master to slave operation.
1086The PFS becomes read-only and access will be locked to its
1087.Cm sync-end-tid .
1088.Pp
1089This directive will refuse to run if any programs have open descriptors
1090in the PFS, including programs chdir'd into the PFS.
1091.\" ==== pfs-destroy ====
1092.It Cm pfs-destroy Ar dirpath
1093This permanently destroys a PFS.
1094.Pp
1095This directive will refuse to run if any programs have open descriptors
1096in the PFS, including programs chdir'd into the PFS.
1097.\" ==== mirror-read ====
1098.It Cm mirror-read Ar filesystem Op Ar begin-tid
1099Generate a mirroring stream to stdout.
1100The stream ends when the transaction id space has been exhausted.
1101.\" ==== mirror-read-stream ====
1102.It Cm mirror-read-stream Ar filesystem Op Ar begin-tid
1103Generate a mirroring stream to stdout.
1104Upon completion the stream is paused until new data is synced to the
1105.Ar filesystem ,
1106then resumed.
1107Operation continues until the pipe is broken.
1108See the
1109.Cm mirror-stream
1110command for more details.
1111.\" ==== mirror-write ====
1112.It Cm mirror-write Ar filesystem
1113Take a mirroring stream on stdin.
1114.Pp
1115This command will fail if the
1116.Cm shared-uuid
1117configuration field for the two file systems do not match.
1118See the
1119.Cm mirror-copy
1120command for more details.
1121.Pp
1122If the target PFS does not exist this command will ask you whether
1123you want to create a compatible PFS slave for the target or not.
1124.\" ==== mirror-dump ====
1125.It Cm mirror-dump
1126A
1127.Cm mirror-read
1128can be piped into a
1129.Cm mirror-dump
1130to dump an ASCII representation of the mirroring stream.
1131.\" ==== mirror-copy ====
1132.\".It Cm mirror-copy Ar [[user@]host:]filesystem [[user@]host:]filesystem
1133.It Cm mirror-copy \
1134Oo Oo Ar user Ns Cm @ Oc Ns Ar host Ns Cm \&: Oc Ns Ar filesystem \
1135Oo Oo Ar user Ns Cm @ Oc Ns Ar host Ns Cm \&: Oc Ns Ar filesystem
1136This is a shortcut which pipes a
1137.Cm mirror-read
1138command to a
1139.Cm mirror-write
1140command.
1141If a remote host specification is made the program forks a
1142.Xr ssh 1
1143and execs the
1144.Cm mirror-read
1145and/or
1146.Cm mirror-write
1147on the appropriate host.
1148The source may be a master or slave PFS, and the target must be a slave PFS.
1149.Pp
1150This command also establishes full duplex communication and turns on
1151the 2-way protocol feature
1152.Fl ( 2 )
1153which automatically negotiates transaction id
1154ranges without having to use a cyclefile.
1155If the operation completes successfully the target PFS's
1156.Cm sync-end-tid
1157will be updated.
1158Note that you must re-chdir into the target PFS to see the updated information.
1159If you do not you will still be in the previous snapshot.
1160.Pp
1161If the target PFS does not exist this command will ask you whether
1162you want to create a compatible PFS slave for the target or not.
1163.\" ==== mirror-stream ====
1164.\".It Cm mirror-stream Ar [[user@]host:]filesystem [[user@]host:]filesystem
1165.It Cm mirror-stream \
1166Oo Oo Ar user Ns Cm @ Oc Ns Ar host Ns Cm \&: Oc Ns Ar filesystem \
1167Oo Oo Ar user Ns Cm @ Oc Ns Ar host Ns Cm \&: Oc Ns Ar filesystem
1168This is a shortcut which pipes a
1169.Cm mirror-read-stream
1170command to a
1171.Cm mirror-write
1172command.
1173This command works similarly to
1174.Cm mirror-copy
1175but does not exit after the initial mirroring completes.
1176The mirroring operation will resume as changes continue to be made to the
1177source.
1178The command is commonly used with
1179.Fl i Ar delay
1180and
1181.Fl b Ar bandwidth
1182options to keep the mirroring target in sync with the source on a continuing
1183basis.
1184.Pp
1185If the pipe is broken the command will automatically retry after sleeping
1186for a short while.
1187The time slept will be 15 seconds plus the time given in the
1188.Fl i
1189option.
1190.Pp
1191This command also detects the initial-mirroring case and spends some
1192time scanning the B-Tree to find good break points, allowing the initial
1193bulk mirroring operation to be broken down into 100MB pieces.
1194This means that the user can kill and restart the operation and it will
1195not have to start from scratch once it has gotten past the first chunk.
1196The
1197.Fl S
1198option may be used to change the size of pieces and the
1199.Fl B
1200option may be used to disable this feature and perform an initial bulk
1201transfer instead.
1202.\" ==== version ====
1203.It Cm version Ar filesystem
1204This command returns the
1205.Nm HAMMER
1206file system version for the specified
1207.Ar filesystem
1208as well as the range of versions supported in the kernel.
1209The
1210.Fl q
1211option may be used to remove the summary at the end.
1212.\" ==== version-upgrade ====
1213.It Cm version-upgrade Ar filesystem Ar version Op Cm force
1214This command upgrades the
1215.Nm HAMMER
1216.Ar filesystem
1217to the specified
1218.Ar version .
1219Once upgraded a file system may not be downgraded.
1220If you wish to upgrade a file system to a version greater or equal to the
1221work-in-progress version number you must specify the
1222.Cm force
1223directive.
1224Use of WIP versions should be relegated to testing and may require wiping
1225the file system as development progresses, even though the WIP version might
1226not change.
1227.Pp
1228.Em NOTE!
1229This command operates on the entire
1230.Nm HAMMER
1231file system and is not a per PFS operation.
1232All PFS's will be affected.
1233.Bl -tag -width indent
1234.It 1
1235.Dx 2.0
1236default version, first
1237.Nm HAMMER
1238release.
1239.It 2
1240.Dx 2.3 .
1241New directory entry layout.
1242This version is using a new directory hash key.
1243.It 3
1244.Dx 2.5 .
1245New snapshot management, using file system meta-data for saving
1246configuration file and snapshots (transaction ids etc.).
1247Also default snapshots directory has changed.
1248.It 4
1249.Dx 2.6
1250default version.
1251New undo/redo/flush, giving HAMMER a much faster sync and fsync.
1252.El
1253.El
1254.Sh PSEUDO-FILESYSTEM (PFS) NOTES
1255The root of a PFS is not hooked into the primary
1256.Nm HAMMER
1257file system as a directory.
1258Instead,
1259.Nm HAMMER
1260creates a special softlink called
1261.Ql @@PFS%05d
1262(exactly 10 characters long) in the primary
1263.Nm HAMMER
1264file system.
1265.Nm HAMMER
1266then modifies the contents of the softlink as read by
1267.Xr readlink 2 ,
1268and thus what you see with an
1269.Nm ls
1270command or if you were to
1271.Nm cd
1272into the link.
1273If the PFS is a master the link reflects the current state of the PFS.
1274If the PFS is a slave the link reflects the last completed snapshot, and the
1275contents of the link will change when the next snapshot is completed, and
1276so forth.
1277.Pp
1278The
1279.Nm
1280utility employs numerous safeties to reduce user foot-shooting.
1281The
1282.Cm mirror-copy
1283directive requires that the target be configured as a slave and that the
1284.Cm shared-uuid
1285field of the mirroring source and target match.
1286.Sh UPGRADE INSTRUCTIONS HAMMER V1 TO V2
1287This upgrade changes the way directory entries are stored.
1288It is possible to upgrade a V1 file system to V2 in place, but
1289directories created prior to the upgrade will continue to use
1290the old layout.
1291.Pp
1292Note that the slave mirroring code in the target kernel had bugs in
1293V1 which can create an incompatible root directory on the slave.
1294Do not mix a
1295.Nm HAMMER
1296master created after the upgrade with a
1297.Nm HAMMER
1298slave created prior to the upgrade.
1299.Pp
1300Any directories created after upgrading will use a new layout.
1301.Sh UPGRADE INSTRUCTIONS HAMMER V2 TO V3
1302This upgrade adds meta-data elements to the B-Tree.
1303It is possible to upgrade a V2 file system to V3 in place.
1304After issuing the upgrade be sure to run a
1305.Nm
1306.Cm cleanup
1307to perform post-upgrade tasks.
1308.Pp
1309After making this upgrade running a
1310.Nm
1311.Cm cleanup
1312will move the
1313.Pa <pfs>/snapshots
1314directory for each PFS mount into
1315.Pa /var/hammer/<pfs> .
1316A
1317.Nm HAMMER
1318root mount will migrate
1319.Pa /snapshots
1320into
1321.Pa /var/hammer/root .
1322Migration occurs only once and only if you have not specified
1323a snapshots directory in the PFS configuration.
1324If you have specified a snapshots directory in the PFS configuration no
1325automatic migration will occur.
1326.Pp
1327For slaves, if you desire, you can migrate your snapshots
1328config to the new location manually and then clear the
1329snapshot directory configuration in the slave PFS.
1330The new snapshots hierarchy is designed to work with
1331both master and slave PFSs equally well.
1332.Pp
1333In addition, the old config file will be moved to file system meta-data,
1334editable via the new
1335.Nm
1336.Cm viconfig
1337directive.
1338The old config file will be deleted.
1339Migration occurs only once.
1340.Pp
1341The V3 file system has new
1342.Cm snap*
1343directives for creating snapshots.
1344All snapshot directives, including the original, will create
1345meta-data entries for the snapshots and the pruning code will
1346automatically incorporate these entries into its list and
1347expire them the same way it expires softlinks.
1348If you by accident blow away your snapshot softlinks you can use the
1349.Cm snapls
1350directive to get a definitive list from the file system meta-data and
1351regenerate them from that list.
1352.Pp
1353.Em WARNING!
1354If you are using
1355.Nm
1356to backup file systems your scripts may be using the
1357.Cm synctid
1358directive to generate transaction ids.
1359This directive does not create a snapshot.
1360You will have to modify your scripts to use the
1361.Cm snapq
1362directive to generate the linkbuf for the softlink you create, or
1363use one of the other
1364.Cm snap*
1365directives.
1366The older
1367.Cm snapshot
1368directive will continue to work as expected and in V3 it will also
1369record the snapshot transaction id in file system meta-data.
1370You may also want to make use of the new
1371.Ar note
1372tag for the meta-data.
1373.Pp
1374.Em WARNING!
1375If you used to remove snapshot softlinks with
1376.Nm rm
1377you should probably start using the
1378.Cm snaprm
1379directive instead to also remove the related meta-data.
1380The pruning code scans the meta-data so just removing the
1381softlink is not sufficient.
1382.Sh UPGRADE INSTRUCTIONS HAMMER V3 TO V4
1383This upgrade changes undo/flush, giving faster sync.
1384It is possible to upgrade a V3 file system to V4 in place.
1385This upgrade reformats the UNDO FIFO (typically 1GB), so upgrade might take
1386a minute or two depending.
1387.Pp
1388Version 4 allows the UNDO FIFO to be flushed without also having
1389to flush the volume header, removing 2 of the 4 disk syncs typically
1390required for an
1391.Fn fsync
1392and removing 1 of the 2 disk syncs typically
1393required for a flush sequence.
1394Version 4 also implements the REDO log (see below) which is capable
1395of fsync()ing with either one disk flush or zero disk flushes.
1396.Sh FSYNC FLUSH MODES
1397.Nm HAMMER
1398implements five different fsync flush modes via the
1399.Va vfs.hammer.fsync_mode
1400sysctl, for
1401.Nm HAMMER
1402version 4+ file systems.
1403.Pp
1404As of
1405.Dx 2.6
1406fsync mode 3 is set by default.
1407REDO operation and recovery is enabled by default.
1408.Bl -tag -width indent
1409.It mode 0
1410Full synchronous fsync semantics without REDO.
1411.Pp
1412.Nm HAMMER
1413will not generate REDOs.
1414A
1415.Fn fsync
1416will completely sync
1417the data and meta-data and double-flush the FIFO, including
1418issuing two disk synchronization commands.
1419The data is guaranteed
1420to be on the media as of when
1421.Fn fsync
1422returns.
1423Needless to say, this is slow.
1424.It mode 1
1425Relaxed asynchronous fsync semantics without REDO.
1426.Pp
1427This mode works the same as mode 0 except the last disk synchronization
1428command is not issued.
1429It is faster than mode 0 but not even remotely
1430close to the speed you get with mode 2 or mode 3.
1431.Pp
1432Note that there is no chance of meta-data corruption when using this
1433mode, it simply means that the data you wrote and then
1434.Fn fsync Ns 'd
1435might not have made it to the media if the storage system crashes at a bad
1436time.
1437.Pp
1438.It mode 2
1439Full synchronous fsync semantics using REDO.
1440NOTE: If not running
1441a HAMMER version 4 filesystem or later mode 0 is silently used.
1442.Pp
1443.Nm HAMMER
1444will generate REDOs in the UNDO/REDO FIFO based on a heuristic.
1445If this is sufficient to satisfy the
1446.Fn fsync
1447operation the blocks
1448will be written out and
1449.Nm HAMMER
1450will wait for the I/Os to complete,
1451and then followup with a disk sync command to guarantee the data
1452is on the media before returning.
1453This is slower than mode 3 and can result in significant disk or
1454SSDs overheads, though not as bad as mode 0 or mode 1.
1455.Pp
1456.It mode 3
1457Relaxed asynchronous fsync semantics using REDO.
1458NOTE: If not running
1459a HAMMER version 4 filesystem or later mode 1 is silently used.
1460.Pp
1461.Nm HAMMER
1462will generate REDOs in the UNDO/REDO FIFO based on a heuristic.
1463If this is sufficient to satisfy the
1464.Fn fsync
1465operation the blocks
1466will be written out and
1467.Nm HAMMER
1468will wait for the I/Os to complete,
1469but will
1470.Em NOT
1471issue a disk synchronization command.
1472.Pp
1473Note that there is no chance of meta-data corruption when using this
1474mode, it simply means that the data you wrote and then
1475.Fn fsync Ns 'd
1476might
1477not have made it to the media if the storage system crashes at a bad
1478time.
1479.Pp
1480This mode is the fastest production fsyncing mode available.
1481This mode is equivalent to how the UFS fsync in the
1482.Bx Ns s
1483operates.
1484.Pp
1485.It mode 4
1486fsync is ignored.
1487.Pp
1488Calls to
1489.Fn fsync
1490will be ignored.
1491This mode is primarily designed
1492for testing and should not be used on a production system.
1493.El
1494.Sh RESTORING FROM A SNAPSHOT BACKUP
1495You restore a snapshot by copying it over to live, but there is a caveat.
1496The mtime and atime fields for files accessed via a snapshot is locked
1497to the ctime in order to keep the snapshot consistent, because neither
1498mtime nor atime changes roll any history.
1499.Pp
1500In order to avoid unnecessary copying it is recommended that you use
1501.Nm cpdup
1502.Fl VV
1503.Fl v
1504when doing the copyback.  Also make sure you traverse the snapshot softlink
1505by appending a ".", as in "<snapshotpath>/.", and you match up the directory
1506properly.
1507.Sh EXIT STATUS
1508.Ex -std
1509.Sh ENVIRONMENT
1510If the following environment variables exist, they will be used by:
1511.Bl -tag -width ".Ev EDITOR"
1512.It Ev EDITOR
1513The editor program specified in the variable
1514.Ev EDITOR
1515will be invoked instead of the default editor, which is
1516.Xr vi 1 .
1517.It Ev VISUAL
1518Same effect as
1519.Ev EDITOR
1520variable.
1521.El
1522.Sh FILES
1523.Bl -tag -width ".It Pa <fs>/var/slaves/<name>" -compact
1524.It Pa <pfs>/snapshots
1525default per PFS snapshots directory
1526.Nm ( HAMMER
1527VERSION 2-)
1528.It Pa /var/hammer/<pfs>
1529default per PFS snapshots directory (not root)
1530.Nm ( HAMMER
1531VERSION 3+)
1532.It Pa /var/hammer/root
1533default snapshots directory for root directory
1534.Nm ( HAMMER
1535VERSION 3+)
1536.It Pa <snapshots>/config
1537per PFS
1538.Nm
1539.Cm cleanup
1540configuration file
1541.Nm ( HAMMER
1542VERSION 2-)
1543.It Pa <fs>/var/slaves/<name>
1544recommended slave PFS snapshots directory
1545.Nm ( HAMMER
1546VERSION 2-)
1547.El
1548.\".Sh EXAMPLES
1549.Sh SEE ALSO
1550.Xr ssh 1 ,
1551.Xr undo 1 ,
1552.Xr HAMMER 5 ,
1553.Xr periodic.conf 5 ,
1554.Xr mount_hammer 8 ,
1555.Xr mount_null 8 ,
1556.Xr newfs_hammer 8
1557.Sh HISTORY
1558The
1559.Nm
1560utility first appeared in
1561.Dx 1.11 .
1562.Sh AUTHORS
1563.An Matthew Dillon Aq dillon@backplane.com
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