do not constitute user-visible or active partitions and as such should
not prevent undoing pending operations.
While here, initialize the last usable sector for the placeholder geom
based on the null scheme, created to allow undoing the destruction of
a scheme. This gives consistent output with "gpart show".
Based on a patch from: "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru>
Previsouly this condition was reported with EIO by bio_offset > mediasize
check.
Perhaps that check should be extended to bio_offset+bio_length > mediasize.
MFC after: 1 week
in a device independent manner. Also include an example anticipatory
scheduler, gsched_rr, which gives very nice performance improvements
in presence of competing random access patterns.
This is joint work with Fabio Checconi, developed last year
and presented at BSDCan 2009. You can find details in the
README file or at
http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/geom_sched/
In other words, deny multiple read-only mounts of the same device.
Shared read-only mounts should theoretically be possible, but,
unfortunately, can not be implemented correctly using current
buffer cache code/interface and results in an eventual system crash.
Also, using nullfs seems to be a more efficient way to achieve the same
goal.
This gets us back to where we were before GEOM and where other BSDs are.
Submitted by: pjd (idea for checking for shared mounting)
Discussed with: phk, pjd
Silence from: fs@, geom@
MFC after: 2 weeks
In r205860 I missed the fact that there is code that strongly assumes
that devvp bo_bsize is equal to underlying provider's sectorsize.
In those places it is hard to obtain the sectorsize in an alternative
way if devvp bo_bsize is set to something else.
So, I am reverting bo_bsize assigment in g_vfs_open.
Instead, in getblk I use DEV_BSIZE block size for b_offset calculation
if vp is a disk vp as reported by vn_isdisk. This should coinside with
vp being a devvp.
Reported by: Mykola Dzham <i@levsha.me>
Tested by: Mykola Dzham <i@levsha.me>
Pointyhat to: avg
MFC after: 2 weeks
X-ToDo: convert bread(devvp) in all fs to use bo_bsize-d blocks
Because of how breadn -> bufstrategy -> g_vfs_strategy are currently
implemented, bread on devvp always expects DEV_BSIZE block size.
Thus, devvp bo_bsize must always be DEV_BSIZE irrespective of media
properties or filesystem implementation details.
Reviewed by: mckusick
MFC after: 2 weeks
to support various storage boxes which really aren't active-active.
We only write the label on the *first* provider. For all other providers
we just "add" the disk. This also allows for an "add" verb.
A usage implication is that you should specificy the currently active
storage path as the first provider.
Note that this does not add RDAC-like functionality, but better allows for
autovolumefailover configurations (additional checkins elsewhere will support
this).
Sponsored by: Panasas
MFC after: 1 month
provider names.
- Characters in range 0x01-0x1f except '\t', '\n', and '\r' are replaced
with '?'. Those characters are disallowed in XML.
- '&', '<', '>', '\'', '"' and characters in range 0x7f-0xff are
replaced with XML numeric character reference.
If the kern.geom.confxml sysctl provides invalid XML, libgeom
geom_xml2tree() fails and utilities using it do not work. Unsafe
characters are common in msdosfs and cd9660 labels.
PR: kern/104389
Submitted by: Doug Steinwand (original version)
Reviewed by: pjd
Discussed on: freebsd-geom
MFC after: 3 weeks
HAST allows to transparently store data on two physically separated machines
connected over the TCP/IP network. HAST works in Primary-Secondary
(Master-Backup, Master-Slave) configuration, which means that only one of the
cluster nodes can be active at any given time. Only Primary node is able to
handle I/O requests to HAST-managed devices. Currently HAST is limited to two
cluster nodes in total.
HAST operates on block level - it provides disk-like devices in /dev/hast/
directory for use by file systems and/or applications. Working on block level
makes it transparent for file systems and applications. There in no difference
between using HAST-provided device and raw disk, partition, etc. All of them
are just regular GEOM providers in FreeBSD.
For more information please consult hastd(8), hastctl(8) and hast.conf(5)
manual pages, as well as http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/HAST.
Sponsored by: FreeBSD Foundation
Sponsored by: OMCnet Internet Service GmbH
Sponsored by: TransIP BV
Note that due to e.g. write throttling ('wdrain'), it can stall all the disk
I/O instead of just the device it's configured for. Using it for removable
media is therefore not a good idea.
Reviewed by: pjd (earlier version)
zero stripeoffset in such case (as if device has no stripes), report offset
from the beginning of the media (as if device has single infinite stripe).
This gives partitioning tools information, required to guess better
partition alignment, in case if hardware doesn't report it's stripe size.
For example, it should give disklabel info about odd offset made by fdisk.
Fix some wrong usages.
Note: this does not affect generated binaries as this argument is not used.
PR: 137213
Submitted by: Eygene Ryabinkin (initial version)
MFC after: 1 month
- For SSDs use TRIM feature of DATA SET MANAGEMENT command, as defined by
ACS-2 specification working draft.
- For CompactFlash use CFA ERASE command, same as ad(4) does.
With this patch, `newfs -E /dev/ada1` was able to restore write speed of
my heavily weared OCZ Vertex SSD (firmware 1.4) up to the initial level
for the most part of it's capacity. Previous 1.3 firmware, even reportiong
TRIM capabilty bit set, was not working, reporting ABORT error for every
DSM command.
I have no idea whether it is normal, but for some reason it takes 200ms
to handle any TRIM command on this drive, that was making delete extremely
slow. But TRIM command is able to accept long list of LBAs and the length of
that list seems doesn't affect it's execution time. Implemented request
clusting algorithm allowed me to rise delete rate up to reasonable numbers,
when many parallel DELETE requests running.
- Instead of measuring last request execution time for each drive and
choosing one with smallest time, use averaged number of requests, running
on each drive. This information is more accurate and timely. It allows to
distribute load between drives in more even and predictable way.
- For each drive track offset of the last submitted request. If new request
offset matches previous one or close for some drive, prefer that drive.
It allows to significantly speedup simultaneous sequential reads.
PR: kern/113885
Reviewed by: sobomax
for specific "kinds" of disk labels - for example, GPT UUIDs. Reason
for this is that sometimes, other GEOM classes attach to these device
nodes instead of the proper ones - e.g. they attach to /dev/gptid/XXX
instead of /dev/ada0p2, which is annoying.
Reviewed by: pjd (earlier version)
MFC after: 1 month
