freebsd-dev/lib/libufs/sbread.3
Kirk McKusick dffce2150e Refactoring of reading and writing of the UFS/FFS superblock.
Specifically reading is done if ffs_sbget() and writing is done
in ffs_sbput(). These functions are exported to libufs via the
sbget() and sbput() functions which then used in the various
filesystem utilities. This work is in preparation for adding
subperblock check hashes.

No functional change intended.

Reviewed by: kib
2018-01-26 00:58:32 +00:00

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.\" Author: Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org>
.\" Date: June 04, 2003
.\" Description:
.\" Manual page for libufs functions:
.\" sbget(3)
.\" sbput(3)
.\" sbread(3)
.\" sbwrite(3)
.\"
.\" This file is in the public domain.
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd January 19, 2018
.Dt SBREAD 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm sbget , sbput , sbread , sbwrite
.Nd read and write superblocks of a UFS file system
.Sh LIBRARY
.Lb libufs
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In sys/param.h
.In sys/mount.h
.In ufs/ufs/ufsmount.h
.In ufs/ufs/dinode.h
.In ufs/ffs/fs.h
.In libufs.h
.Ft int
.Fn sbget "int devfd" "struct fs **fsp" "off_t sblockloc"
.Ft int
.Fn sbput "int devfd" "struct fs *fs" "int numaltwrite"
.Ft int
.Fn sbread "struct uufsd *disk"
.Ft int
.Fn sbwrite "struct uufsd *disk" "int all"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Fn sbget
and
.Fn sbread
functions provide superblock reads for
.Xr libufs 3
consumers.
The
.Fn sbput
and
.Fn sbwrite
functions provide superblock writes for
.Xr libufs 3
consumers.
.Pp
The
.Fn sbget
function first allocates a buffer to hold the superblock.
Using the
.Va devfd
file descriptor that references the filesystem disk,
.Fn sbget
reads the superblock located at the byte offset specified by
.Va sblockloc
into the allocated buffer.
If successful, it returns a pointer to the buffer containing the superblock in
.Va fsp .
The
.Fn sbget
function is safe to use in threaded applications.
.Pp
The
.Fn sbput
function writes the superblock specified by
.Va fs
to the location from which it was read on the disk referenced by the
.Va devfd
file descriptor.
Additionally, the
.Fn sbput
function will update the first
.Va numaltwrite
alternate superblock locations.
To update all the alternate superblocks,
specify a
.Va numaltwrite
value of
.Va fs->fs_ncg .
The
.Fn sbput
function is safe to use in threaded applications.
Note that the
.Fn sbput
function needs to be called only if the superblock has been
modified and the on-disk copy needs to be updated.
.Pp
The
.Fn sbread
function reads the standard filesystem superblock into the
.Va d_sb ,
structure embedded in the given user-land UFS disk structure.
.Pp
The
.Fn sbwrite
function writes the superblock from the
.Va d_sb ,
structure embedded in the given user-land UFS disk structure
to the location from which it was read.
Additionally, the
.Fn sbwrite
function will write to all the alternate superblock locations if the
.Fa all
value is non-zero.
.Sh RETURN VALUES
.Rv -std sbget sbput sbread sbwrite
.Sh ERRORS
The
.Fn sbget
and
.Fn sbread
functions may fail and set
.Va errno
for any of the errors specified for the library function
.Xr bread 3 .
Additionally, it may follow the
.Xr libufs 3
error methodologies in situations where no usable superblock could be
found.
.Pp
The
.Fn sbput
and
.Fn sbwrite
functions may fail and set
.Va errno
for any of the errors specified for the library function
.Xr bwrite 3 .
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr bread 3 ,
.Xr bwrite 3 ,
.Xr libufs 3
.Sh HISTORY
These functions first appeared as part of
.Xr libufs 3
in
.Fx 5.0 .
.Sh AUTHORS
.An Juli Mallett Aq Mt jmallett@FreeBSD.org