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32 .Nd "GEOM Gate local control utility"
37 .Op Fl o Cm ro | wo | rw
38 .Op Fl q Ar queue_size
39 .Op Fl s Ar sectorsize
46 .Op Fl o Cm ro | wo | rw
60 utility is a local GEOM Gate class consumer.
61 It can be used as a replacement for
65 for non GEOM-aware devices, but it was mainly created as an example
66 on how to use and how to communicate with the GEOM Gate kernel module.
69 .Bl -tag -width ".Cm destroy"
73 provider related to the given regular file or device.
75 Attach a worker process to an existing
89 .Bl -tag -width ".Fl s Cm ro | wo | rw"
93 provider (cancels all pending requests).
94 .It Fl o Cm ro | wo | rw
95 Specify permission to use when opening the file or device: read-only
103 .It Fl q Ar queue_size
104 Number of pending I/O requests that can be queued before they will
105 start to be canceled.
107 .It Fl s Ar sectorsize
111 If not specified, it is taken from device, or set to 512 bytes for files.
113 Number of seconds to wait before an I/O request will be canceled.
119 Do not fork, run in foreground and print debug informations on standard
122 Path to a regular file or device.
125 Exit status is 0 on success, or 1 if the command fails.
126 To get details about the failure,
128 should be called with the
137 to encrypt data on a floppy.
138 .Bd -literal -offset indent
139 ggatel create -u 5 /dev/fd0
140 gbde init /dev/ggate5
142 newfs /dev/ggate5.bde
143 mount /dev/ggate5.bde /secret
144 cp /private/foo /secret/
159 utility as well as this manual page was written by
160 .An Pawel Jakub Dawidek Aq pjd@FreeBSD.org .