and we don't use the frags info, so why bother? More to the point, it
seems to result in an EXDEV error when the label is written out and we
lose because of it (don't know why though). This is a work-around and
is marked as such.
Add -v flag to newfs:
-v Specify that the partition does not contain any slices, and that
newfs should treat the whole partition as the file system. This
option is useful for synthetic disks such as ccd and vinum.
in rev.1.9). fsck uses the per-partition ffs-related information
in the label to find alternate superblocks when the main superblock
is hosed. Rev.1.9 broke this by deleting the code that wrote the
label.
PR: 2537
xref: fsck/setup.c rev.1.8
for filesystems with almost the maximum number of sectors. The maxiumum
is 2^31, but overflow is common for that size, and overflow normally
occurred here at size (2^31 - 4096).
size was rounded up to a multiple of the fragment size, but this
gave invalid file systems when the fragment size was > SBSIZE (fsck
aborts early on them). Now a fragment size of 32768 seems to work
(too-simple tests with fsck and iozone worked).
higher up in memory (0x0800000 upwards) rather than near zero (0x1000
for our qmagic a.out format). The method that mount_mfs uses to allocate
the memory within data size rlimits for the ram disk is entirely too much
of a kludge for my liking. I mean, if it's run as root, surely it makes
sense to just raise the resource limits to infinity or something, and if
it's a non-root user mount (do these work? with mfs?) it could just fail
if it's outside limits.
better hack in ffs_vfsops.c. The hack here restricted the maximum file
size to 2^39 bytes (512GB). fs_bsize * 2^31 - 1 (16TB for the default
blocksize of 8K) would have been better. There is no good way to remove
this limit on old BSD4.4 file systems.
This makes configuration of mfs /tmp on diskless clients more intuitive
for people like me, that have used this feature on NetBSD and SunOS.
Using the -T option and /dev/null, while already supported,
is neither intuitive nor documented in the handbook.
Obtained from: NetBSD
it's internal malloc() implementation to try and avoid overstepping it's
resource limits (yuk!). Remain using libc's malloc(), but check the
resource limits right before trying to malloc the ramdisk space and leave
some spare memory for libc. In Andrey's words, the internal malloc
was "true evil".. Among it's sins is it's ability to allocate less memory
than asked for and still return success. stdio would just love that. :-)
Reviewed by: ache
automatically have random generation numbers. The kenel way of handling those
also changed. Further it is advised to run fsirand on all your nfs exported
filesystems. the code is mostly copied from OpenBSD, with the randomization
chanegd to use /dev/urandom
Reviewed by: Garrett
Obtained from: OpenBSD
- Use MAP_FAILED instead of the constant -1 to indicate
failure (required by POSIX).
- Removed flag arguments of '0' (required by POSIX).
- Fixed code which expected an error return of 0.
- Fixed code which thought any address with the high bit set
was an error.
- Check for failure where no checks were present.
Discussed with: bde
the sd & od drivers. There is also slight changes to fdisk & newfs
in order to comply with different sectorsizes.
Currently sectors of size 512, 1024 & 2048 are supported, the only
restriction beeing in fdisk, which hunts for the sectorsize of
the device.
This is based on patches to od.c and the other system files by
John Gumb & Barry Scott, minor changes and the sd.c patches by
me.
There also exist some patches for the msdos filesys code, but I
havn't been able to test those (yet).
John Gumb (john@talisker.demon.co.uk)
Barry Scott (barry@scottb.demon.co.uk)
LKM loading if it was not configured into the system.
Note that the LKM for MFS is not enabled by default, but I got it working on
my machine.. I'll see what I did..
in a couple of cases, and it doesn't do much anyway. It used to save only
the newfs params (block/frag/cgroup.. and nothing more. Something that
don't belong in a disklabel in the first place.
We pretend we have one head with two megabyte worth of sectors per cylinder.
The code try to access another head in what it belives to the same
physical cylinder, because it belives that it would be faster than
waiting for the next free sector under this head to come around.
Most modern drives doesn't have a "classical" geometry, and thus
we end up fooling ourselves doing the above optimization. With this
change we will fill a cylinder sequentially if we can, and thus get
much more mileage from the track-buffer/cache built into the drives.
As a result a lot of seeks to the next or previous track should be
avoided by this.
(My disk is a lot less noisy actually...)
You can still get the old behaviour, by specifying zero for the
numbers.
This will also solve the problem with newfs barfing at really big
drives.
Obtained from: adult advice from Kirk.
