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32 .Nd "GEOM Gate local control utility"
37 .Op Fl o Cm ro | wo | rw
38 .Op Fl s Ar sectorsize
53 .Op Fl o Cm ro | wo | rw
59 utility is a local GEOM Gate class consumer.
60 It can be used as a replacement for
64 for non GEOM-aware devices, but it was mainly created as an example
65 on how to use and how to communicate with the GEOM Gate kernel module.
68 .Bl -tag -width ".Cm destroy"
72 provider related to the given regular file or device.
82 Take over a previously created provider and handle pending and future
83 requests. This is useful if the initial
85 process died. To prevent data loss, the given path must lead to the
86 regular file or device that was used to create the provider.
90 .Bl -tag -width ".Fl s Cm ro | wo | rw"
94 provider (cancels all pending requests).
95 .It Fl o Cm ro | wo | rw
96 Specify permission to use when opening the file or device: read-only
104 .It Fl s Ar sectorsize
108 If not specified, it is taken from device, or set to 512 bytes for files.
110 Number of seconds to wait before an I/O request will be canceled.
116 Do not fork, run in foreground and print debug information on standard
119 Path to a regular file or device.
122 Exit status is 0 on success, or 1 if the command fails.
123 To get details about the failure,
125 should be called with the
134 to encrypt data on a floppy.
135 .Bd -literal -offset indent
136 ggatel create -u 5 /dev/fd0
137 gbde init /dev/ggate5
139 newfs /dev/ggate5.bde
140 mount /dev/ggate5.bde /secret
141 cp /private/foo /secret/
156 utility as well as this manual page was written by
157 .An Pawel Jakub Dawidek Aq pjd@FreeBSD.org .