does restore them only when -l option is specified [1]. Make number of
entries field in backup format optional. Document -l and -r options of
`gpart show` action.
Suggested by: pjd [1]
MFC after: 1 week
big sector size. When gctl error is set gctl_has_param() always returns
'false', which prevents geli(8) from finding some arguments and also masks
an error, which is generates in such case.
MFC after: 3 days
This was needed for recover implementation.
Implement the recover command for GPT. Now GPT will marked as
corrupt when any of three types of corruption will be detected:
1. Damaged primary GPT header or table
2. Damaged secondary GPT header or table
3. Secondary header is not located in the last LBA
Marked GPT becomes read-only. Any changes with corrupt table
are prohibited. Only "destroy" and "recover" commands are allowed.
Discussed with: geom@ (mostly silence)
Tested by: Ilya A. Arhipov
Approved by: mav (mentor)
MFC after: 2 weeks
Before this change if you wanted to suspend your laptop and be sure that your
encryption keys are safe, you had to stop all processes that use file system
stored on encrypted device, unmount the file system and detach geli provider.
This isn't very handy. If you are a lucky user of a laptop where suspend/resume
actually works with FreeBSD (I'm not!) you most likely want to suspend your
laptop, because you don't want to start everything over again when you turn
your laptop back on.
And this is where geli suspend/resume steps in. When you execute:
# geli suspend -a
geli will wait for all in-flight I/O requests, suspend new I/O requests, remove
all geli sensitive data from the kernel memory (like encryption keys) and will
wait for either 'geli resume' or 'geli detach'.
Now with no keys in memory you can suspend your laptop without stopping any
processes or unmounting any file systems.
When you resume your laptop you have to resume geli devices using 'geli resume'
command. You need to provide your passphrase, etc. again so the keys can be
restored and suspended I/O requests released.
Of course you need to remember that 'geli suspend' won't clear file system
cache and other places where data from your geli-encrypted file system might be
present. But to get rid of those stopping processes and unmounting file system
won't help either - you have to turn your laptop off. Be warned.
Also note, that suspending geli device which contains file system with geli
utility (or anything used by 'geli resume') is not very good idea, as you won't
be able to resume it - when you execute geli(8), the kernel will try to read it
and this read I/O request will be suspended.
This is especially useful for things like installers, where regular
geli prompt can't be used.
- Add support for specifing multiple -K or -k options, so there is no
need to cat all keyfiles and read them from standard input.
Requested by: Kris Moore <kris@pcbsd.org>, thompsa
MFC after: 2 weeks
This option doesn't passed to kernel and handled in user-space.
With -F option gpart creates new "delete" request for each
partition in table. Each request has flags="X" that disables
auto-commit feature. Last request is the original "destroy" request.
It has own flags and can have disabled or enabled auto-commit feature.
If error is occurred when deleting partitions, then new "undo" request
is created and all changes will be rolled back.
Approved by: kib (mentor)
to growing the filesystem.
Refuse to attach providers where the metadata provider size is
wrong. This makes post-boot attaches behave consistently with
pre-boot attaches. Also refuse to restore metadata to a provider
of the wrong size without the new -f switch. The new -f switch
forces the metadata restoration despite the provider size, and
updates the provider size in the restored metadata to the correct
value.
Helped by: pjd
Reviewed by: pjd
allow the option to be specified multiple times. This will help to
implement things like passing multiple keyfiles to geli(8) instead of
cat(1)ing them all into stdin and reading from there using one '-k -'
option.
understand everything correctly, we don't really need it.
- Provide default numeric value as strings. This allows to simplify
a lot of code.
- Bump version number.
- ad0 was referred to as da0
- wrong parameter -s instead of -a in example
- use double quotes consistently
PR: docs/150082
Submitted by: N.J. Mann <njm@njm.me.uk>
MFC after: 2 weeks
of add verb. Mention about maximum size limit for "freebsd-boot"
partition. It should be smaller than 545 KB (hardcoded in pmbr).
Show usage of SI unit suffixes in example.
Approved by: mav (mentor)
MFC after: 1 week
Move code that converts params from humanized numbers to sectors count
to subr.c and adjust comment.
Add post-processing for "size" and "start offset" params in gpart,
now they are properly converted to sectors count with known sector size
that can be greater that 512 bytes.
Also replace "unsigned long long" type to "off_t" for unify code since
it used for medium size in libgeom(3) and DIOCGMEDIASIZE ioctl.
PR: bin/146277
Reviewed by: marcel (previous version)
Approved by: kib (mentor)
MFC after: 1 month
- remove stray argument [1]
- remove stray whitespace
- use canonical wording for the HISTORY section
PR: docs/147119 [1]
Submitted by: Alexander Best <alexbestms@wwu.de> [1]
MFC after: 1 week
- Add information regarding VTOC8 bootrstrap code and how it's handled with
r208777 in place.
- Document the mapping of partition types to VTOC8 tags.
- Add examples for VTOC8 to the respective section.
- Eliminated hard sentence breaks.
Reviewed by: marcel (slightly buggy version)
MFC after: 3 days
file to be of maximum size.
- Add special handling required for SMI/VTOC8 disklabel partcode, i.e. avoid
overwriting the label when writing the bootstrap code to the partition
starting at 0 and install it to all partitions when the -i option is omitted
just like geom_sunlabel(4) and sunlabel(8) do by default.
- Add missing prototypes.
- Add const where applicable.
Reviewed by: marcel
MFC after: 3 days
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/
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
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)
when trees were big and FAST mode was enabled by default.
So small block size doesn't benefits linear I/O operations in FAST and
significantly slowdowns in ECONOMIC (default) mode. For single stream random
I/Os so small block doesn't give much benefits, as access time is usually
bigger then transfer time there. Same time it requires all heads to seek
together for every single request, reducing performance on parallel load.
"split" is very ineffective for devices with rotating media as HDDs.
To be effective, it needs that transfer time reduction due to block
splitting was bigger then access time increase due to non-sequential
access. For modern HDDs I was able to reproduce it only with read sizes
of 2MB and above, which is almost not applicable in real life.
"load" algorithm same time is more universal and effective now.
Reviewed by: pjd
GEOM_PART does not exist in the kernel, and 2) the GEOM in
question does not exist.
Additionally abort in case of programming errors that result
in neither the class nor geom not being present in the gctl
request.
Submitted by: "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru>
Approved by: re (kib)
gpart(8). LBAs in particular are ugly. The ganularity is a sector,
but users expect byte granularity when specifying the size or offset
with a SI unit. Handle LBAs specially to deal with this.
attributes. The start and end more accurately describe the
space taken by a partition. The offset and size are used to
describe the effective (usable) storage of that partition.
modify the pointer argument passed to it. This triggered an assert in malloc
when a geom command being run under the livefs environment.
PR: bin/130632
Submitted by: Dimitry Andric <dimitry -at- andric.com>
Pointy hat to: me
MFC after: 2 days
* Better wording of sections dealing with physical storage
* A new section on assumptions gvirstor has on its consumer devices
(components) and its interaction with file systems
* Improved markup (by hrs@)
Reviewed by: hrs
Approved by: gnn (mentor)
might do subsequent reads from other providers. This stopped geli (and
probably other classes using g_metadata_store as well) from being put on top
of gvinum raid5 volumes.
Note:
The reason it fails in the gvinum raid5 case is that gvinum will read back the
old parity stripe before calculating the new parity stripe to be written out
again. The write will then fail because the underlying disk to be read is
opened write only.
MFC after: 1 week
formatting a number in a human-friendly way.
Note that with this commit a megabyte changed from 1000000 to
1048576 and a 80G disk is now printed as being 75G in size.
This is deliberate. It's consistent with the core of geom(8).
However, the original choice for a megabyte being 1000000 was
on purpose and matches what disk vendors put on the box. The
consistency is considered more important.
Submitted by: delphij
once it is lost, all data is gone.
Option '-B none' can by used to prevent backup. Option '-B path' can be
used to backup metadata to a different file than the default, which is
/var/backups/<prov>.eli.
The 'geli init' command also prints backup file location and gives short
procedure how to restore metadata.
The 'geli setkey' command now warns that even after passphrase change or keys
update there could be version of the master key encrypted with old
keys/passphrase in the backup file.
Add regression tests to verify that new functionality works as expected.
Update other regression tests so they don't create backup files.
Reviewed by: keramida, rink
Dedicated to: a friend who lost 400GB of his live by accidentally overwritting geli metadata
MFC after: 2 weeks
RELEASE_CRUNCH builds use NO_MAN anyway, so this change is primarily
to avoid that developers have to set NO_MAN manually when they build
the static variant.
The -l option changes the output to show the partition label, if applicable
and when present. The -r option changes the output to show the raw (i.e.
scheme-specific) partition types.
o gctl_delete_param() -- intended for parameters that are consumed
by geom(8) itself and which should not be passed to the kernel.
o gctl_has_param() -- intended to check if optional parameters are
present.
Both are needed by gpart(8) to process the optional parameter for
writing bootcode to a partition (as part of the bootcode verb).
However, the kernel is itself not involved in this matter and the
parameter needs to be removed from the request destined for the
kernel.
and define STATIC_GEOM_CLASSES when building the rescue binary. This way
geom can more easily be part of other crunched binaries, as it requires
only a Makefile change.
providers with limited physical storage and add physical storage as
needed.
Submitted by: Ivan Voras
Sponsored by: Google Summer of Code 2006
Approved by: re (kensmith)
This allows to use numbers in human-readable form in many geom(8)
utilities. Such a simple change and makes live so much nicer.
Some examples:
gstripe label -s 16k
gmirror label -s 4k
gnop create -o 1g -s 128m -S 2k
gjournal label -s 2g
geli label -i 128k -s 4k
Approved by: re (kensmith)
previous commit and that introduced optional parameters.
Existing classes (like geli(8)) use empty strings by default
and expect the parameter to be passed to the kernel as such.
Also, the default value of a string argument can be NULL.
Fix both cases by making the optional parameter conditional
upon gc_argname being set and making sure to test for NULL
before dereferencing the pointer.
Reported by: brueffer@