IPRINIT(8)

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✨ IPRINIT(8) ✨

okay bestie, so this is iprinit — straight out of the System Manager's Manual section 8, and it is literally the glow-up your IBM Power RAID setup has been waiting for 🫶

💖 NAME 💖

iprinit — the IBM Power RAID adapter/device initialization utility 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

iprinit
iprinit --debug --daemon --use-polling --use-uevents

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so what does she do, you ask? iprinit sets up your IBM Power RAID adapters and devices so they run at optimal performance — like, she's not just showing up, she's showing out 💅

here's the tea:

  • she'll enable U320 scsi speeds if it's determined that the disk enclosure supports it ⚡
  • she'll also enable tagged command queuing 🔥
  • and any scsi bus attributes (think bus width) or disk attributes (think queue depth) that were already set up by iprconfig? yeah, those get loaded too ✨
the dream scenario: this gets called during the boot process, using the init.d script that's provided. that's the intended vibe, fr fr 👑

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • --version — prints the version number of iprinit. simple. iconic. 🎀
  • --debug — turns on extra error logging. heads up bestie, enabling this means additional errors get logged to /var/log/messages — so your log is gonna be chatty 🙈
  • --daemon — runs as a daemon so she can handle adapters and devices being hotplugged 🧚 main character energy, always on duty
  • --use-polling — do not use netlink/uevent notification, and instead poll for adapter and device configuration changes 👀
  • --use-uevents — use netlink/uevent notification rather than polling for adapter and device configuration changes ✨
quick lil caveat: if --use-uevents is not specified, polling will be used until the first uevent notification appears — and after that, netlink takes over. so she's flexible like that 💁‍♀️

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Brian King (brking@us.ibm.com) — shoutout to the legend who made her 🫶

okay and for the cute sign-off: this whole page is dated February 2005, and it comes to you from the System Manager's Manual corner of the world 🌈 that's it, that's the page — go init your RAID, bestie, and slay 💖✨🎀

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