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+.\" Copyright (c) 2009 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+.\" Copyright (c) 2009 Michael Gebetsroither <michael.geb@gmx.at>. All rights
+.\" reserved.
+.\"
+.TH zpios 1 "2009 NOV 01" "ZFS on Linux" "User Commands"
+
+.SH NAME
+\fBztest\fR \- was written by the ZFS Developers as a ZFS unit test.
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.LP
+.BI "ztest <options>"
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.LP
+This manual page documents briefly the \fBztest\fR command.
+.LP
+\fBztest\fR was written by the ZFS Developers as a ZFS unit test. The
+tool was developed in tandem with the ZFS functionality and was
+executed nightly as one of the many regression test against the daily
+build. As features were added to ZFS, unit tests were also added to
+\fBztest\fR.  In addition, a separate test development team wrote and
+executed more functional and stress tests.
+.LP
+By default \fBztest\fR runs for ten minutes and uses block files
+(stored in /tmp) to create pools rather than using physical disks.
+Block files afford \fBztest\fR its flexibility to play around with
+zpool components without requiring large hardware configurations.
+However, storing the block files in /tmp may not work for you if you
+have a small tmp directory.
+.LP
+By default is non-verbose. This is why entering the command above will
+result in \fBztest\fR quietly executing for 5 minutes. The -V option
+can be used to increase the verbosity of the tool. Adding multiple -V
+option is allowed and the more you add the more chatty \fBztest\fR
+becomes.
+.LP
+After the \fBztest\fR run completes, you should notice many ztest.*
+files lying around. Once the run completes you can safely remove these
+files. Note that you shouldn't remove these files during a run. You
+can re-use these files in your next \fBztest\fR run by using the -E
+option.
+.SH OPTIONS
+.HP
+.BI "\-?" ""
+.IP
+Print a help summary.
+.HP
+.BI "\-v" " vdevs" " (default: 5)
+.IP
+Number of vdevs.
+.HP
+.BI "\-s" " size_of_each_vdev" " (default: 64M)"
+.IP
+Size of each vdev.
+.HP
+.BI "\-a" " alignment_shift" " (default: 9) (use 0 for random)"
+.IP
+Used alignment in test.
+.HP
+.BI "\-m" " mirror_copies" " (default: 2)"
+.IP
+Number of mirror copies.
+.HP
+.BI "\-r" " raidz_disks" " (default: 4)"
+.IP
+Number of raidz disks.
+.HP
+.BI "\-R" " raidz_parity" " (default: 1)"
+.IP
+Raidz parity.
+.HP
+.BI "\-d" " datasets" " (default: 7)"
+.IP
+Number of datasets.
+.HP
+.BI "\-t" " threads" " (default: 23)"
+.IP
+Number of threads.
+.HP
+.BI "\-g" " gang_block_threshold" " (default: 32K)"
+.IP
+Gang block threshold.
+.HP
+.BI "\-i" " initialize_pool_i_times" " (default: 1)"
+.IP
+Number of pool initialisations.
+.HP
+.BI "\-k" " kill_percentage" " (default: 70%)"
+.IP
+Kill percentage.
+.HP
+.BI "\-p" " pool_name" " (default: ztest)"
+.IP
+Pool name.
+.HP
+.BI "\-V(erbose)"
+.IP
+Verbose (use multiple times for ever more blather).
+.HP
+.BI "\-E(xisting)"
+.IP
+Use existing pool (use existing pool instead of creating new one).
+.HP
+.BI "\-T" " time" " (default: 300 sec)"
+.IP
+Total test run time.
+.HP
+.BI "\-z" " zil_failure_rate" " (default: fail every 2^5 allocs)
+.IP
+Injected failure rate.
+.SH "EXAMPLES"
+.LP
+To override /tmp as your location for block files, you can use the -f
+option:
+.IP
+ztest -f /
+.LP
+To get an idea of what ztest is actually testing try this:
+.IP
+ztest -f / -VVV
+.LP
+Maybe you'd like to run ztest for longer? To do so simply use the -T
+option and specify the runlength in seconds like so:
+.IP
+ztest -f / -V -T 120
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.BR "zpool (1)" ","
+.BR "zfs (1)" ","
+.BR "zdb (1)" ","
+.SH "AUTHOR"
+This manual page was transvered to asciidoc by Michael Gebetsroither
+<gebi@grml.org> from http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/ztest/