.TH DMEVENTD 8 "DM TOOLS #VERSION#" "Red Hat Inc" \" -*- nroff -*- .SH NAME dmeventd \- Device-mapper event daemon .SH SYNOPSIS .B dmeventd [\-d] [\-f] [\-R] [\-h] [\-V] [\-?] .SH DESCRIPTION dmeventd is the event monitoring daemon for device-mapper devices. Library plugins can register and carry out actions triggered when particular events occur. .SH LVM PLUGINS .TP .I Mirror Attempts to handle device failure automatically. See \fBlvm.conf\fP(5). .TP .I Snapshot Monitors how full a snapshot is becoming and emits a warning to syslog when it exceeds 80% full. The warning is repeated when 85%, 90% and 95% of the snapshot is filled. See \fBlvm.conf\fP(5). .SH OPTIONS .TP .I \-d Repeat from 1 to 3 times (-d, -dd, -ddd) to increase the detail of debug messages sent to syslog. Each extra d adds more debugging information. .TP .I \-f Don't fork, run in the foreground. .TP .I \-R Replace a running dmeventd instance. The running dmeventd must be version 2.02.77 or newer. The new dmeventd instance will obtain a list of devices and events to monitor from the currently running daemon. .TP .I \-h, \-? Show help information. .TP .I \-V Show version of dmeventd. .SH SEE ALSO .BR lvm (8), .BR lvm.conf (5)