read requests to its consumer. It has been developed to address
the problem of a horrible read performance of a 64k blocksize FS
residing on a RAID3 array with 8 data components, where a single
disk component would only get 8k read requests, thus effectively
killing disk performance under high load. Documentation will be
provided later. I'd like to thank Vsevolod Lobko for his bright
ideas, and Pawel Jakub Dawidek for helping me fix the nasty bug.
use a different mechanism for setting warning flags, and using
WARNS here only has null or negative effects.
Submitted by: bde (I think it means "submitted")
the geom creation to a seperate init function and ignore the tasting.
The config is now parsed only in the vinumdrive geom, which hopefully
fixes the problem, that the drive class tasted before the vinum class
had a chance, for good.
Also restore the behaviour that the module can be loaded at boot time
and on a running system.
Add functions to rename objects and to move a subdisk from one drive
to another.
Obtained from: Chris Jones <chris.jones@ualberta.ca>
Sponsored by: Google Summer of Code 2005
MFC in: 1 week
This way, the VINUMDRIVE class is loaded before the VINUM class,
but since geom does the tasting for newly arrived classes
last-in-first-out, the VINUM class tastes first.
This removes the need to call gv_parse_config() in the drive
taste path.
It creates very huge provider (41PB) /dev/gzero.
On BIO_READ request it zero-fills bio_data and on BIO_WRITE it does nothing.
You can also set kern.geom.zero.clear sysctl to 0 to do nothing even for
BIO_READ.
I'm using it for performance testing where it is very helpful.
MFC after: 3 days
the given providers. Without even one of the configured components there
should be no way to get the secret.
Supported by: WHEEL Sp. z o.o.
http://www.wheel.pl
features. The gmirror(8) utility should be used for control of this class.
There is no manual page yet, but I'm working on it with keramida@.
Many useful tests provided by: simon (thank you!)
Some ideas from: scottl, simon, phk
This class is used for detecting volume labels on file systems:
UFS, MSDOSFS (FAT12, FAT16, FAT32) and ISO9660.
It also provide native labelization (there is no need for file system).
g_label_ufs.c is based on geom_vol_ffs from Gordon Tetlow.
g_label_msdos.c and g_label_iso9660.c are probably hacks, I just found
where volume labels are stored and I use those offsets here,
but with this class it should be easy to do it as it should be done by
someone who know how.
Implementing volume labels detection for other file systems also should
be trivial.
New providers are created in those directories:
/dev/ufs/ (UFS1, UFS2)
/dev/msdosfs/ (FAT12, FAT16, FAT32)
/dev/iso9660/ (ISO9660)
/dev/label/ (native labels, configured with glabel(8))
Manual page cleanups and some comments inside were submitted by
Simon L. Nielsen, who was, as always, very helpful. Thanks!
- Connect geom_stripe and geom_nop modules to the build.
- Connect STRIPE and NOP classes to the LINT build.
- Disconnect gconcat(8) from the build.
Supported by: Wheel - Open Technologies - http://www.wheel.pl
redundant paths to the same device.
This class reacts to a label in the first sector of the device,
which is created the following way:
# "0123456789abcdef012345..."
# "<----magic-----><-id-...>
echo "GEOM::FOX someid" | dd of=/dev/da0 conv=sync
NB: Since the fact that multiple disk devices are in fact the same
device is not known to GEOM, the geom taste/spoil process cannot
fully catch all corner cases and this module can therefore be
confused if you do the right wrong things.
NB: The disk level drivers need to do the right thing for this to
be useful, and that is not by definition currently the case.
