HASTCTL(8)

NAME
hastctl - Highly Available Storage control utility

SYNOPSIS
hastctl create [-d] [-c config] [-e extentsize] [-k keepdirty] [-m mediasize] name ...
hastctl role [-d] [-c config] <init | primary | secondary> all | name ...
hastctl status [-d] [-c config] [all | name ...]
hastctl dump [-d] [-c config] [all | name ...]

DESCRIPTION
The hastctl utility is used to control the behaviour of the hastd(8) daemon.

This utility should be used by HA software like heartbeat or ucarp to setup HAST resources role when changing from primary mode to secondary or vice versa. Be aware that if a file system like UFS exists on HAST provider and primary node dies, file system has to be checked for inconsistencies with the fsck(8) utility after switching secondary node to primary role.

The first argument to hastctl indicates an action to be performed:

create
    Initialize local provider configured for the given resource. Additional options include:

    -e extentsize
        Size of an extent. Extent is a block which is used for synchronization. hastd(8) maintains a map of dirty extents and extent is the smallest region that can be marked as dirty. If any part of an extent is modified, entire extent will be synchronized when nodes connect. If extent size is too small, there will be too much disk activity related to dirty map updates, which will degrade performance of the given resource. If extent size is too large, synchronization, even in case of short outage, can take a long time increasing the risk of losing up-to-date node before synchronization process is completed. The default extent size is 2MB.

    -k keepdirty
        Maximum number of dirty extents to keep dirty all the time. Most recently used extents are kept dirty to reduce number of metadata updates. The default number of most recently used extents which will be kept dirty is 64.

    -m mediasize
        Size of the smaller provider used as backend storage on both nodes. This option can be omitted if node providers have the same size on both sides.

    If size is suffixed with a k, M, G or T, it is taken as a kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte or terabyte measurement respectively.

role
    Change role of the given resource. The role can be one of:

    init
        Resource is turned off.

    primary
        Local hastd(8) daemon will act as primary node for the given resource. System on which resource role is set to primary can use /dev/hast/<name> GEOM provider.

    secondary
        Local hastd(8) daemon will act as secondary node for the given resource - it will wait for connection from the primary node and will handle I/O requests received from it. GEOM provider /dev/hast/<name> will not be created on secondary node.

status
    Present status of the configured resources.

dump
    Dump metadata stored on local component for the configured resources.

In addition, every subcommand can be followed by the following options:

-c config
    Specify alternative location of the configuration file. The default location is /etc/hast.conf.

-d  Print debugging information. This option can be specified multiple times to raise the verbosity level.

FILES
/etc/hast.conf
    Configuration file for hastctl and hastd(8).
/var/run/hastctl
    Control socket used by hastctl to communicate with the hastd(8) daemon.

EXIT STATUS
Exit status is 0 on success, or one of the values described in sysexits(3) on failure.

EXAMPLES
Initialize HAST provider, create file system on it and mount it.

    nodeB# hastctl create shared
    nodeB# hastd
    nodeB# hastctl role secondary shared
    nodeA# hastctl create shared
    nodeA# hastd
    nodeA# hastctl role primary shared
    nodeA# newfs -U /dev/hast/shared
    nodeA# mount -o noatime /dev/hast/shared /shared
    nodeA# application_start

Switch roles for the shared HAST resource.

    nodeA# application_stop
    nodeA# umount -f /shared
    nodeA# hastctl role secondary shared
    nodeB# hastctl role primary shared
    nodeB# fsck -t ufs /dev/hast/shared
    nodeB# mount -o noatime /dev/hast/shared /shared
    nodeB# application_start

SEE ALSO
sysexits(3), geom(4), hast.conf(5), fsck(8), ggatec(8), ggatel(8), hastd(8), mount(8), newfs(8)

AUTHORS
The hastctl was developed by Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> under sponsorship of the FreeBSD Foundation.