sxvol-create - create volumes on SX clusters
sxvol create [OPTIONS] -r N -s SIZE -o username
sx://[profile@]cluster/volume
Create a remote volume with specific settings. Only cluster
administrators can create volumes.
- -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 different 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(-igabytes) 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/lib/sxclient)
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