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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 subsystem.
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
84 This is useful if the initial
87 To prevent data loss, the given path must lead to the
88 regular file or device that was used to create the provider.
92 .Bl -tag -width ".Fl s Cm ro | wo | rw"
96 provider (cancels all pending requests).
97 .It Fl o Cm ro | wo | rw
98 Specify permissions to use when opening the file or device: read-only
106 .It Fl s Ar sectorsize
110 If not specified, it is taken from the device, or set to 512 bytes for files.
112 Number of seconds to wait before an I/O request will be canceled.
118 Do not fork, run in foreground and print debug information on standard
121 Path to a regular file or device.
124 Exit status is 0 on success, or 1 if the command fails.
125 To get details about the failure,
127 should be called with the
136 to encrypt data on a floppy disk.
137 .Bd -literal -offset indent
138 ggatel create -u 5 /dev/fd0
139 gbde init /dev/ggate5
141 newfs /dev/ggate5.bde
142 mount /dev/ggate5.bde /secret
143 cp /private/foo /secret/
163 utility as well as this manual page was written by
164 .An Pawel Jakub Dawidek Aq Mt pjd@FreeBSD.org .