properly. Otherwise the minimum of 1 is used and you can
only insert a single partition/slice and only at sector
0 (index 1).
o When adding a partition/slice, recalculate the index after
the start and size of the partition/slice are adjusted to
make them a multiple of the track size. Since the precheck
method sets the index based on the start of the partition
as provided by the user, we know that we're off by at most
1 and adjusting the index is safe.
1. Extend geom_dev by having it create the symlink (i.e. call
make_dev_alias) based on the DIOCGPROVIDERALIAS ioctl.
In this way the functionaility is generic and thus usable
by any geom/provider.
2. Have g_part handle said ioctl through the devalias method,
so that it's under control of the scheme itself. By design
the alias will not be created for newly added partitions.
method allows schemes to reject the ctl request, pre-check
the parameters and/or modify/set parameters. There are 2
use cases that triggered the addition:
1. When implementing a R/O scheme, deletes will still
happen to the in-memory representation. The scheme is
not involved in that operation. The pre-check method
can be used to fail the delete up-front. Without this
the write to disk will typically fail, but at that
time the delete already happened.
2. The EBR scheme uses a linked list to record slices.
There's no index. The EBR scheme defines the index
as a function of the start LBA of the partition. The
add verb picks an index for the range and then invokes
the add method of the scheme to fill in the blanks. It
is too late for the add method to change the index.
The pre-check is used to set the index up-front. This
also (silently) overrides/nullifies any (pointless)
user-specified index value.
found inside extended partitions and used to create logical partitions.
At this time write/modify support is not (yet) present.
The EBR and MBR schemes both check the parent scheme. The MBR will
back-off when nested under another MBR, whereas the EBR only nests
under a MBR.
underlying partitioning scheme.
o Put the start and end of the partition in the XML configuration.
The start and end are the LBAs of the first and last sector
(resp.) of the partition. They are currently identical to the
offset and size attributes, which describe the partition as an
offset and size in bytes, but may not in the future. The start
and end will be used for the logical partition boundaries and
may include metadata. The offset and size will always represent
the useful storage space within the partition. Typically these
two notions are the same, but for logical partitions in an
extended partition, the EBR is more naturally treated as being
part of the partition.
allowing the full 16-bit width of the corresponding fields in the
VTOC8 label to be used. The removed limits basically only held
true for providers labeled using the synthetic geometry provided
by cam_calc_geometry(9) but neither SCSI disks labeled with Solaris
nor sufficiently large ATA disks.
- Given that providers (originally) labeled with Solaris typically
use the native geometry as reported by the target while FreeBSD
typically uses a synthetic one put the message complaining about
mismatching geometries between what the label indicates and what
GEOM thinks the provider has, which we generally can't help,
under bootverbose in order to not unnecessarily scare users.
- For informational purposes add the non-matching values to the
message complaining about them, similar to what r186501 did for
g_part_bsd_read() except also indicating the origin of the
values.
- Make it clear that the messages emitted by this code refer to
the VTOC8 support rather than to another existing scheme or to
VTOC32.
o Don't check the dummy fields.
o The entry is unused if either dp_mid is 0 or dp_sid is 0.
o The start or end cylinder cannot be 0.
o The start CHS cannot be equal to the end CHS.
Submitted by: nyan
still valid. We were checking the state of the header and
not the table.
PR: 119868
Based on a patch from: Jaakko Heinonen <jh@saunalahti.fi>
MFC after: 1 week
a little refinement, but is good enough to commit as is.
# Should look to see if I should move swab(3) into the kernel or just
# provide the unoptimized routine here.
Reviewed by: marcel@
are possibly still being created. The d_secperunit field
contains the number of sectors of the disk and not of the
slice/partition to which the disklabel applies.
Rather than reject the disklabel, we now silently adjust
the field. Existing code, like bslabel(8), does not seem
to check the label that extensively and seems to adjust
fields as a side-effect as well.
In other words, it's not that important apparently, so
gpart should not be too strict about it.
Reported by: nyan@
Reported by: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>
Export the active and bootable flags as attributes in
the configuration XML and allow them to be manipulated
with the set/unset commands.
Since libdisk treats the flags as part of the partition
type, preserve behavior by keeping them included in the
configuration text.
if the probe succeeds. This guarantees that the BSD scheme
wins over the MBR scheme when MBR gets to probe first. Build-
or link-time conditions can cause schemes to end up in the
linker set in a different order. Normally BSD is before MBR
in the linker set and as such get to probe first. But typically
when the kernel gets rebuild or relinked, this can change.
that a nested partition (typically the BSD disklabel)
is not done tasting while the root file system is being
mounted. While this is rare, it's still possible.
the method for the (indent == NULL) case (i.e. the kern.geom.conftxt
sysctl). The purpose is to extend the conftxt output with scheme-
specific fields which can be used by libdisk. In particular, have
the schemes dump the xs and xt fields, which contain the backward
compatible values for class type and partition type. This allows
libdisk to work with the legacy slicers as well as with gpart and
helps/promotes migration.
SI_SUB_DRIVERS) to avoid loading schemes before all the GEOM
classes have been loaded and initialized. Otherwise we may
end up using mutexes that haven't been initialized (due to
g_retaste() posting an event).
to declaring a proper module. The module event handler is part of the
gpart core and will add the scheme to an internal list on module load
and will remove the scheme from the internal list on module unload.
This makes it possible to dynamically load and unload partitioning
schemes.
not have VTOC information about the partitions, it will be created.
This is because the VTOC information is used for the partition type
and FreeBSD's sunlabel(8) does not create nor use VTOC information.
For this purpose, new tags have been added to support FreeBSD's
partition types.
partition table is empty, check to see if we have something that
looks sufficiently like a BPB. On non-i386 machines, the boot
sector typically doesn't contain boot code; the end of the boot
sector is all zeroes. This is also where the partition table is
for MBRs.
We only check the sector size and cluster size, as that seems to
be the most reliable across implementations, BPB versions and
platforms.
only because there's a partition table where the boot sector has
boot code. Boot sectors without boot code look like a MBR for all
practical purposes. This change adds a check for the partition table
and fails the probe when it's obvously invalid. The assumption being
that the sector contains a boot sector and not a MBR.
More checks are needed to distinguish a boot secto without boot code
from a (empty) MBR.
o BSD disklabels have relative offsets. Even for the BSD in MBR slice
setup, except when the mbroffset ioctl is supported. Since we don't
support that ioctl, bsdlabel(8) expects relative offsets. So, when
reading an existing disklabel, correct for disklabels that mistakenly
have the mbroffset offsets.
o Don't take the geometry seriously, because it's untrustworthy. We do
expect the numbers to be within range. This means that the secperunit
field will not be computed from secpercyl and ncyls, but simply is
the mediasize in sectors.
o Don't enforce partitions to be aligned to track boundaries. The
default label, constructed by bsdlabel(8), puts partition a at offset
BBSIZE bytes, which commonly means sector 16.
o Disklabels can have between 8 and 20 partitions (inclusive).
o No device special file is created for the raw partition.
o Switch ia64 to use this backend.
o No support for boot code yet.
on i386 and amd64 machines. The overall process is that /boot/pmbr lives
in the PMBR (similar to /boot/mbr for MBR disks) and is responsible for
locating and loading /boot/gptboot. /boot/gptboot is similar to /boot/boot
except that it groks GPT rather than MBR + bsdlabel. Unlike /boot/boot,
/boot/gptboot lives in its own dedicated GPT partition with a new
"FreeBSD boot" type. This partition does not have a fixed size in that
/boot/pmbr will load the entire partition into the lower 640k. However,
it is limited in that it can only be 545k. That's still a lot better than
the current 7.5k limit for boot2 on MBR. gptboot mostly acts just like
boot2 in that it reads /boot.config and loads up /boot/loader. Some more
details:
- Include uuid_equal() and uuid_is_nil() in libstand.
- Add a new 'boot' command to gpt(8) which makes a GPT disk bootable using
/boot/pmbr and /boot/gptboot. Note that the disk must have some free
space for the boot partition.
- This required exposing the backend of the 'add' function as a
gpt_add_part() function to the rest of gpt(8). 'boot' uses this to
create a boot partition if needed.
- Don't cripple cgbase() in the UFS boot code for /boot/gptboot so that
it can handle a filesystem > 1.5 TB.
- /boot/gptboot has a simple loader (gptldr) that doesn't do any I/O
unlike boot1 since /boot/pmbr loads all of gptboot up front. The
C portion of gptboot (gptboot.c) has been repocopied from boot2.c.
The primary changes are to parse the GPT to find a root filesystem
and to use 64-bit disk addresses. Currently gptboot assumes that the
first UFS partition on the disk is the / filesystem, but this algorithm
will likely be improved in the future.
- Teach the biosdisk driver in /boot/loader to understand GPT tables.
GPT partitions are identified as 'disk0pX:' (e.g. disk0p2:) which is
similar to the /dev names the kernel uses (e.g. /dev/ad0p2).
- Add a new "freebsd-boot" alias to g_part() for the new boot UUID.
MFC after: 1 month
Discussed with: marcel (some things might still change, but am committing
what I have so far)
don't have it. Some partitioning schemes, as well as file systems,
operate on the geometry and without it such schemes (e.g. MBR)
and file systems (e.g. FAT) can't be created. This is useful for
memory disks.
exists and contains the 'C' flag.
o The partition label can be the empty string. It's how labels are
cleared.
o When an action fails, lower permissions when they were raised
in order to allow the action. A failed action will not result
in any uncommitted changes.
o Allow the flags paremeter to be present but empty. It's the
equivalent of not being present.
119373: o Remove the query verb, along with the request and response
parameters.
o Add the version and output parameters.
119390: [APM,GPT] Properly clear deleted entries.
119394: o Make the alias the standard and use the '!' to prefix
literal partition types.
o Treat schemes and partition types as case insensitive.
119462: [GPT] Fix a page fault caused when modifying a partition entry
without a new partition type.
partitioning class that supports multiple schemes. Current
schemes supported are APM (Apple Partition Map) and GPT.
Change all GEOM_APPLE anf GEOM_GPT options into GEOM_PART_APM
and GEOM_PART_GPT (resp).
The ctlreq interface supports verbs to create and destroy
partitioning schemes on a disk; to add, delete and modify
partitions; and to commit or undo changes made.
