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authorgjb <gjb@FreeBSD.org>2016-09-20 19:11:40 +0000
committergjb <gjb@FreeBSD.org>2016-09-20 19:11:40 +0000
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Document r291716, camdd(8).
Submitted by: ken Approved by: re (implicit) Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
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<acronym>GELI</acronym>-backed <acronym>SSD</acronym> storage
providers.</para>
+ <para revision="291716" contrib="sponsor"
+ sponsor="&spectralogic;">The &man.camdd.8; utility has been
+ added, which allows copying data sequentially to and from
+ <acronym>SCSI</acronym> devices, files, block devices and tape
+ drives. If the source and/or destination is
+ a <acronym>SCSI</acronym> disk, &man.camdd.8; can use the
+ asynchronous &man.pass.4; interface to queue multiple I/Os for
+ improved speed. (ATA passthrough support for &man.camdd.8; is
+ in development.)</para>
+
+ <para revision="291716" contrib="sponsor"
+ sponsor="&spectralogic;">The &man.pass.4;
+ <acronym>SCSI</acronym>/<acronym>ATA</acronym> passthrough
+ driver now has an asynchronous interface. User applications
+ may queue many requests, get notification of completion via
+ &man.kqueue.2; and retrieve status later. &man.camdd.8; is an
+ example application using the interface.</para>
+
<para revision="295212" contrib="sponsor" sponsor="&ix;">Support
for parsing libucl-based configuration files has been added to
&man.ctld.8;.</para>
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