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.TH "NBD-TRDUMP" "1" "$Date$" "" ""

.SH NAME
nbd-trdump \- translate an nbd transaction log into human readable form
.SH SYNOPSIS

\fBnbd-trdump\fR

.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP
\fBnbd-trdump\fR translates
a transaction log produced by \fBnbd-server\fR
(specifically by the \fBtransactionlog\fR
configuration directive) into human readable form.
.PP
The command acts as a traditional UNIX filter, i.e. the
transaction log must be supplied on standard input, and the
human readable output is sent to standard output.
.SH "OUTPUT"
.PP
The following may be output:
.TP
\fB>\fR
A request packet sent from the client to the server.
.TP
\fB<\fR
A reply packet sent from the server to the client.
.TP
\fB<S\fR
A structured reply packet sent from the server to the client.
.TP
\fBH\fR
The cookie of the packet. Note: previous versions of
this man page (and the NBD spec) referred to the cookie as the
"handle".
.TP
\fBC\fR
The command sent.
.TP
\fBO\fR
The offet from the start of the disk.
.TP
\fBL\fR
The length of data.
.TP
\fBE\fR
The error returned.
.TP
\fBT\fR
The type of the structured reply message.
.TP
\fBF\fR
The flags on the structured reply message.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.PP
nbd-server (1).
.SH "AUTHOR"
.PP
The NBD kernel module and the NBD tools have been written by
Pavel Macheck (pavel@ucw.cz).
.PP
The kernel module is now maintained by Paul Clements
(Paul.Clements@steeleye.com), while the userland tools are maintained by
Wouter Verhelst (wouter@debian.org)
.PP
This manual page was written by Wouter Verhelst (<wouter@debian.org>) for
the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).  Permission is
granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the
terms of the GNU General Public License,
version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation.