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$FreeBSD: head/sbin/hastd/hastd.8 235873 2012-05-24 02:24:03Z wblock $
.Dd February 1, 2010 .Dt HASTD 8 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm hastd .Nd "Highly Available Storage daemon" .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm .Op Fl dFh .Op Fl c Ar config .Op Fl P Ar pidfile .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm daemon is responsible for managing highly available GEOM providers.
p .Nm allows to transparently store data on two physically separated machines connected over the TCP/IP network. Only one machine (cluster node) can actively use storage provided by .Nm . This machine is called primary. The .Nm daemon operates on block level, which makes it transparent for file systems and applications.
p There is one main .Nm daemon which starts new worker process as soon as a role for the given resource is changed to primary or as soon as a role for the given resource is changed to secondary and remote (primary) node will successfully connect to it. Every worker process gets a new process title (see .Xr setproctitle 3 ) , which describes its role and resource it controls. The exact format is: d -literal -offset indent hastd: <resource name> (<role>) .Ed
p When (and only when) .Nm operates in primary role for the given resource, corresponding
a /dev/hast/<name> disk-like device (GEOM provider) is created. File systems and applications can use this provider to send I/O requests to. Every write, delete and flush operation .Dv ( BIO_WRITE , BIO_DELETE , BIO_FLUSH ) is send to local component and synchronously replicated to the remote (secondary) node if it is available. Read operations .Dv ( BIO_READ ) are handled locally unless I/O error occurs or local version of the data is not up-to-date yet (synchronization is in progress).
p The .Nm daemon uses the GEOM Gate class to receive I/O requests from the in-kernel GEOM infrastructure. The .Nm geom_gate.ko module is loaded automatically if the kernel was not compiled with the following option: d -ragged -offset indent .Cd "options GEOM_GATE" .Ed
p The connection between two .Nm daemons is always initiated from the one running as primary to the one running as secondary. When primary .Nm is unable to connect or connection fails, it will try to re-establish connection every few seconds. Once connection is established, primary .Nm will synchronize every extent that was modified during connection outage to the secondary .Nm .
p It is possible that in case of connection outage between the nodes .Nm primary role for the given resource will be configured on both nodes. This in turn leads to incompatible data modifications. Such condition is called split-brain and cannot be automatically resolved by the .Nm daemon as this will lead most likely to data corruption or lost of important changes. Even though it cannot be fixed by .Nm itself, it will be detected and further connection between independently modified nodes will not be possible. Once this situation is manually resolved by an administrator, resource on one of the nodes can be initialized (erasing local data), which makes connection to the remote node possible again. Connection of freshly initialized component will trigger full resource synchronization.
p The .Nm daemon itself never picks his role up automatically. The role has to be configured with the .Xr hastctl 8 control utility by additional software like .Nm ucarp or .Nm heartbeat that can reliably manage role separation and switch secondary node to primary role in case of original primary failure.
p The .Nm daemon can be started with the following command line arguments: l -tag -width ".Fl P Ar pidfile" t Fl c Ar config Specify alternative location of the configuration file. The default location is
a /etc/hast.conf . t Fl d Print or log debugging information. This option can be specified multiple times to raise the verbosity level. t Fl F Start the .Nm daemon in the foreground. By default .Nm starts in the background. t Fl h Print the .Nm usage message. t Fl P Ar pidfile Specify alternative location of a file where main process PID will be stored. The default location is
a /var/run/hastd.pid . .El .Sh FILES l -tag -width ".Pa /var/run/hastctl" -compact t Pa /etc/hast.conf The configuration file for .Nm and .Xr hastctl 8 . t Pa /var/run/hastctl Control socket used by the .Xr hastctl 8 control utility to communicate with .Nm . t Pa /var/run/hastd.pid The default location of the .Nm PID file. .El .Sh EXIT STATUS Exit status is 0 on success, or one of the values described in .Xr sysexits 3 on failure. .Sh EXAMPLES Launch .Nm on both nodes. Set role for resource .Nm shared to primary on .Nm nodeA and to secondary on .Nm nodeB . Create file system on
a /dev/hast/shared provider and mount it. d -literal -offset indent nodeB# hastd nodeB# hastctl role secondary shared nodeA# hastd nodeA# hastctl role primary shared nodeA# newfs -U /dev/hast/shared nodeA# mount -o noatime /dev/hast/shared /shared .Ed .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr sysexits 3 , .Xr geom 4 , .Xr hast.conf 5 , .Xr ggatec 8 , .Xr ggated 8 , .Xr ggatel 8 , .Xr hastctl 8 , .Xr mount 8 , .Xr newfs 8 , .Xr g_bio 9 .Sh AUTHORS The .Nm was developed by .An Pawel Jakub Dawidek Aq pjd@FreeBSD.org under sponsorship of the FreeBSD Foundation.