SXVOL-CREATE(1) Skylable SX Manual SXVOL-CREATE(1)NAMEsxvol-create - create volumes on SX clusters
SYNOPSIS
sxvol create [OPTIONS] -r N -s SIZE -o username sx://[profile@]clus‐
ter/volume
DESCRIPTION
Create a remote volume with specific settings. Only cluster administra‐
tors can create volumes.
OPTIONS-h, --help
Print help and exit
--full-help
Print help, including hidden options, and exit
-V, --version
Print version and exit
-r, --replica=NUMBER
Set the replica count for the volume. This is a mandatory option
and specifies how many times the data will be replicated on dif‐
ferent nodes. For example, with replica count 2 the volume data
will still be available when one of the nodes, which includes
the volume data fails (because there's still another node with
the copy of the data).
-o, --owner=NAME
Set the owner of the volume. The owners can modify volume ACLs
(see sxacl(1)) and other settings. This option is mandatory.
-s, --size=SIZE
Set the size of the new volume. The size can be followed by one
of the following suffixes: K(-ilobytes), M(-megabytes), G(-iga‐
bytes) and T(-erabytes) suffixes. This option is mandatory.
-f, --filter=NAME[="FILTER_OPTIONS"]
Enable selected filter for the new volume. The filters can do
some additional processing of the data (such as compression or
encryption), see sxvol-filter(1) for more information.
--max-revisions=NUMBER
Set the maximum number of revisions to keep for files in the
volume. The revisions are other versions of the file stored when
the file gets modified. The default value is 1, which means that
only a single version of the file will be stored. See sxrev(1)
for more information about revisions.
-D, --debug
Enable debug messages
-c, --config-dir=PATH
Path to the SX configuration directory (default: ~/.sx)
-c, --filter-dir=PATH
Path to the SX filter directory (default:
/usr/local/lib/sxclient)
EXAMPLES
To create a 5GB volume 'data' with replica count 2, owned by 'joe',
which uses the compression filter 'zcomp' run:
sxvol create -r 2 -o joe -s 5G -f zcomp sx://admin@cluster/data
To create an encrypted volume with replica 3 and default settings for
'admin' run:
sxvol create -r 3 -o admin -f aes256 sx://admin@cluster/encrypted
SEE ALSOsxvol-filter(1), sxvol-modify(1), sxvol-remove(1)sxvol 1.2 September 2014 SXVOL-CREATE(1)
