o The only indication of error condition is NULL value returned by
the function;
o value pointed to by error argument is undefined in the case when
operation completes successfully.
Discussed with: phk
in BSD and MBR classes, ie. if provider below us uses the same metadata,
don't create labels based on the metadata.
This allows to create labels on geoms with rank != 1 without hacks.
Tested by: Chris Elsworth <chris@shagged.org> on sparc64
OK'ed by: phk
MFC after: 2 weeks
shown that it is not useful.
Rename the relative count g_access_rel() function to g_access(), only
the name has changed.
Change all g_access_rel() calls in our CVS tree to call g_access() instead.
Add an #ifndef BURN_BRIDGES #define of g_access_rel() for source
code compatibility.
hinge on the "verb" parameter which the class gets to interpret as
it sees fit.
Move the entire request into the kernel and move changed parameters
back when done.
held.
The only place where we want to not hold topology is when we read
(or write) the label to disk: in the case of a disk error with a
long recovery time, holding topology would prevent open/close of
any disk device.
This means that you can no longer trash your opened partitions by writing to
the sunlabel through another partition. This is similar to the semantics
implemented for BSD labels.
test is built to test GEOM as running in the kernel.
This commit is basically "unifdef -D_KERNEL" to remove the mainly #include
related code to support the userland-harness.
don't take the detour over the I/O path to discover them using getattr(),
we can just pick them out directly.
Do note though, that for now they are only valid after the first open
of the underlying disk device due compatibility with the old disk_create()
API. This will change in the future so they will always be valid.
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
with support for trying, doing and forcing.
This will eventually replace g_slice_addslice() which gets changed from
grabbing topology to requing it in this commit as well.
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
the relevant classes.
Some methods may implement various "magic spaces", this is reserved
or magic areas on the disk, set a side for various and sundry purposes.
A good example is the BSD disklabel and boot code on i386 which occupies
a total of four magic spaces: boot1, the disklabel, the padding behind
the disklabel and boot2. The reason we don't simply tell people to
write the appropriate stuff on the underlying device is that (some of)
the magic spaces might be real-time modifiable. It is for instance
possible to change a disklabel while partitions are open, provided
the open partitions do not get trampled in the process.
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
The detection code in this method is written so that it should work on
all architectures which means that you can plug a Sun disk into a i386
now and access the partitions.
We still need an endian-agnostic ufs/ffs before this is really
interresting, but the main focus was to get sparc64 onto the GEOM
trail.
