.IP "\fBstrace\fR"
Run the daemon under \fBstrace\fR(1), if it is installed, logging to
\fIdaemon\fB.strace.log.\fIpid\fR in the log directory.
+.
+.IP "\fBglibc\fR"
+Enable GNU C library features designed to find memory errors.
.RE
.
.IP
By default, no wrapper is used.
.
.IP
-Wrappers greatly slow daemon operations so they should not be used in
-production. They also produce voluminous logs that can quickly fill
-small disk partitions.
+Each of the wrappers can expose bugs in Open vSwitch that lead to
+incorrect operation, including crashes. The \fBvalgring\fR and
+\fBstrace\fR wrappers greatly slow daemon operations so they should
+not be used in production. They also produce voluminous logs that can
+quickly fill small disk partitions. The \fBglibc\fR wrapper is less
+resource-intensive but still somewhat slows the daemons.
.
.PP
The following options control file locations. They should only be
.IP "\fB\-\-db\-schema=\fIschema\fR"
Overrides the file name for the OVS database schema.
.
+.IP "\fB\-\-extra-dbs=\fIfile\fR"
+Adds \fIfile\fR as an extra database for \fBovsdb\-server\fR to serve
+out. Multiple space-separated file names may also be specified.
+\fIfile\fR should begin with \fB/\fR; if it does not, then it will be
+taken as relative to \fIdbdir\fR.
+.
.SH "The ``stop'' command"
.
.PP
This command does nothing and finishes successfully if the OVS daemons
aren't running.
.
+.SH "The ``restart'' command"
+.
+.PP
+The \fBrestart\fR command performs a \fBstop\fR followed by a \fBstart\fR
+command. The command can take the same options as that of the \fBstart\fR
+command. In addition, it saves and restores Openflow flows for each
+individual bridge.
+.
.SH "The ``status'' command"
.
.PP
bridge ``local ports''.
.
.IP 2.
+Saves the Openflow flows of each bridge and the kernel datapath
+configuration for each of the kernel datapaths.
+.
+.IP 3.
Stops the Open vSwitch daemons, as if by a call to \fBovs\-ctl
stop\fR.
.
-.IP 3.
+.IP 4.
Saves the kernel configuration state of the OVS internal interfaces
listed in step 1, including IP and IPv6 addresses and routing table
entries.
.
-.IP 4.
+.IP 5.
Unloads the Open vSwitch kernel module (including the bridge
compatibility module if it is loaded).
.
-.IP 5.
-Starts OVS back up, as if by a call to \fBovs\-ctl start\fR. This
-reloads the kernel module and restarts the OVS daemons (including
-\fBovs\-brcompatd\fR, if \fB\-\-brcompat\fR is specified).
-.
.IP 6.
-Restores the kernel configuration state that was saved in step 3.
+Starts OVS back up, as if by a call to \fBovs\-ctl start\fR. This
+reloads the kernel module, restores the saved kernel datapath configuration,
+restarts the OVS daemons (including \fBovs\-brcompatd\fR, if \fB\-\-brcompat\fR
+is specified) and finally restores the saved Openflow flows.
.
.IP 7.
+Restores the kernel configuration state that was saved in step 4.
+.
+.IP 8.
Checks for daemons that may need to be restarted because they have
packet sockets that are listening on old instances of Open vSwitch
kernel interfaces and, if it finds any, prints a warning on stdout.
.
.IP "\fBOVS_LOGDIR\fR"
.IQ "\fBOVS_RUNDIR\fR"
+.IQ "\fBOVS_DBDIR\fR"
.IQ "\fBOVS_SYSCONFDIR\fR"
.IQ "\fBOVS_PKGDATADIR\fR"
.IQ "\fBOVS_BINDIR\fR"
The OVS database schema used to initialize the database (use
\fB\-\-db\-schema to override this location).
.
-.IP "\fIsysconfdir\fB/openvswitch/conf.db\fR"
+.IP "\fIdbdir\fB/conf.db\fR"
The OVS database (use \fB\-\-db\-file\fR to override this location).
.
.IP "\fIrundir\fB/openvswitch/db.sock\fR"
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