partitions of types other than "freebsd-boot" (in particular, "efi").
This allows the removal of some nasty hacks for supporting PowerPC systems,
in particular aliasing freebsd-boot to apple-boot on APM and an IBM-specific
code on MBR.
This changes the installer to use the correct names, which also breaks a
degeneracy in the meaning of "freebsd-boot" that allows the addition
of support for some newer IBM systems that can boot from GPT in addition to
MBR. Since I have no idea how to detect which those systems are, leave
the default on IBM PPC systems as MBR for now.
This partitioning scheme is used in DragonFlyBSD. It is similar to
BSD disklabel, but has the following improvements:
* metadata has own dedicated place and isn't accessible through partitions;
* all offsets are 64-bit;
* supports 16 partitions by default (has reserved place for more);
* has reserved place for backup label (but not yet implemented);
* has UUIDs for partitions and partition types;
No objections from: geom
MFC after: 2 weeks
Relnotes: yes
This fixes the problem, when gmirror starts again just after stop.
The problem occurs when gmirror's component has geom label with equal size.
E.g. gpt and gptid have the same size as partition, diskid has the same
size as entire disk. When gmirror's geom has been destroyed, glabel
creates its providers and this initiate retaste.
Now "gmirror destroy" command is available. It destroys geom and also
erases gmirror's metadata.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Now it is easy to expand the size of the mirror when all its components
are replaced. Also add g_resize method to geom_mirror class. It will write
updated metadata to new last sector, when parent provider is resized.
Silence from: geom@
MFC after: 1 month
Always validate the return of find_geomcfg(). It could be NULL, for
example when the geom is withering.
Approved by: ken (mentor)
Sponsored by: Spectra Logic Corporation
MFC after: 3 weeks
in gpart(8) and boot(8), adding references to gptboot(8) in both.
Reviewed by: jhb, ae, pjd, Paul Schenkeveld <bsdcan@psconsult.nl>, david_a_bright@dell.com (portions), gjb
MFC after: 1 week
This allows setting attributes on tables. One simply does not provide
an index in that case. Otherwise the entry corresponding the index has
the attribute set or unset.
Use this change to fix a relatively longstanding bug in our GPT scheme
that's the result of rev 198097 (relatively harmless) followed by rev
237057 (damaging). The damaging part being that our GPT scheme always
has the active flag set on the PMBR slice. This is in violation with
EFI. Existing EFI implementions for both x86 and ia64 reject the GPT.
As such, GPT disks created by us aren't usable under EFI because of
that.
After this change, GPT disks never have the active flag set on the PMBR
slice. In order to make the GPT disk bootable under some x86 BIOSes,
the reason of rev 198097, one must now set the active attribute on the
gpt table. The kernel will apply this to the PMBR slice For (S)ATA:
gpart set -a active ada0
To fix an existing GPT disk that has the active flag set in the PMBR,
and that does not need the flag, use (again for (S)ATA):
gpart unset -a active ada0
The EBR, MBR & PC98 schemes, which also impement at least 1 attribute,
now check to make sure the entry passed is valid. They do not have
attributes that apply to the table.
This compiler flag enforces that that people either mark variables
static or use an external declarations for the variable, similar to how
-Wmissing-prototypes works for functions.
Due to the fact that Yacc/Lex generate code that cannot trivially be
changed to not warn because of this (lots of yy* variables), add a
NO_WMISSING_VARIABLE_DECLARATIONS that can be used to turn off this
specific compiler warning.
Announced on: toolchain@
of upgrading older machines using ataraid(4) to newer releases.
This optional parameter is controlled via kern.geom.raid.legacy_aliases
and will create a /dev/ar0 device that will point at /dev/raid/r0 for
example.
Tested on Dell SC 1425 DDF-1 format software raid controllers installing from
stable/7 and upgrading to stable/9 without having to adjust /etc/fstab
Reviewed by: mav
Obtained from: Yahoo!
MFC after: 2 Weeks
when comparing its size with the size of the media, to determine if
the last disk block is unused.
Submitted by: Andreas Longwitz <longwitz@incore.de>
Reviewed by: pjd
MFC after: 2 weeks
provided by Bas Smeelen <b.smeelen@ose.nl>. Use of 'gpart list'
suggested by by Andrey V. Elsukov <ae@FreeBSD.org>.
PR: docs/174270
Submitted by: Ronald F.Guilmette <rfg@tristatelogic.com>
Reviewed by: ae (block sizes)
MFC after: 1 week
defined by the SNIA Common RAID Disk Data Format Specification v2.0.
Supports multiple volumes per array and multiple partitions per disk.
Supports standard big-endian and Adaptec's little-endian byte ordering.
Supports all single-layer RAID levels. Dual-layer RAID levels except
RAID10 are not supported now because of GEOM RAID design limitations.
Some work is still to be done, but the present code already manages basic
interoperation with RAID BIOS of the Adaptec 1430SA SATA RAID controller.
MFC after: 1 month
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
- Implement "configure" command to allow switching operation mode of
running device on-fly without destroying and recreation.
- Implement Active/Read mode as hybrid of Active/Active and Active/Passive.
In this mode all paths not marked FAIL may handle reads same time,
but unlike Active/Active only one path handles write requests at any
point in time. It allows to closer follow original write request order
if above layers need it for data consistency (not waiting for requisite
write completion before sending dependent write).
- Hide duplicate messages about device status change.
- Remove periodic thread wake up with 10Hz rate.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
reduce the size of the partition in the example from 128 blocks to 94
blocks so it will end on a 128-block boundary. Also remove the -b
option from the next example.
MFC after: 3 weeks
existing sections to refer to the new one. Rearrange partitioning scheme
list so MBR and EBR types are together. Also add several corrections for
grammar, clarity, and consistency.
Approved by: gjb (mentor)
MFC after: 1 week
- Improved locking and destruction process to fix crashes.
- Improved "automatic" configuration method to make it consistent and safe
by reading metadata back from all specified paths after writing to one.
- Added provider size check to reduce chance of ordering conflict with
other GEOM classes.
- Added "manual" configuration method without using on-disk metadata.
- Added "add" and "remove" commands to allow manage paths manually.
- Failed paths are no longer dropped from geom, but only marked as FAIL
and excluded from I/O operations.
- Automatically restore failed paths when all others paths are marked
as failed, for example, because of device-caused (not transport) errors.
- Added "fail" and "restore" commands to manually control FAIL flag.
- geom is now destroyed on last path disconnection.
- Added optional Active/Active mode support. Unlike Active/Passive
mode, load evenly distributed between all working paths. If supported by
the device, it allows to significantly improve performance, utilizing
bandwidth of all paths. It is controlled by -A option during creation.
Disabled by default now.
- Improved `status` and `list` commands output.
Sponsored by: iXsystems, inc.
MFC after: 1 month
- add support for volumes above 2TiB with Promise metadata format;
- enforse and document other limitations:
- Intel and Promise metadata formats do not support disks above 2TiB;
- NVIDIA metadata format does not support volumes above 2TiB.
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
MFC after: 2 weeks
with older FreeBSD versions:
- Add -V option to 'geli init' to specify version number. If no -V is given
the most recent version is used.
- If -V is given don't allow to use features not supported by this version.
- Print version in 'geli list' output.
- Update manual page and add table describing which GELI version is
supported by which FreeBSD version, so one can use it when preparing GELI
device for older FreeBSD version.
Inspired by: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com>
MFC after: 3 days
given GEOM provider or if not providers are given it will print versions
supported by userland geli(8) utility and by ELI GEOM class.
MFC after: 3 days
