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How it works:
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Basically ifs is a copy of ffs, overriding some vfs/vnops. (Yes, hack.)
I didn't see the need in duplicating all of sys/ufs/ffs to get this
off the ground.
File creation is done through a special file - 'newfile' . When newfile
is called, the system allocates and returns an inode. Note that newfile
is done in a cloning fashion:
fd = open("newfile", O_CREAT|O_RDWR, 0644);
fstat(fd, &st);
printf("new file is %d\n", (int)st.st_ino);
Once you have created a file, you can open() and unlink() it by its returned
inode number retrieved from the stat call, ie:
fd = open("5", O_RDWR);
The creation permissions depend entirely if you have write access to the
root directory of the filesystem.
To get the list of currently allocated inodes, VOP_READDIR has been added
which returns a directory listing of those currently allocated.
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What this entails:
* patching conf/files and conf/options to include IFS as a new compile
option (and since ifs depends upon FFS, include the FFS routines)
* An entry in i386/conf/NOTES indicating IFS exists and where to go for
an explanation
* Unstaticize a couple of routines in src/sys/ufs/ffs/ which the IFS
routines require (ffs_mount() and ffs_reload())
* a new bunch of routines in src/sys/ufs/ifs/ which implement the IFS
routines. IFS replaces some of the vfsops, and a handful of vnops -
most notably are VFS_VGET(), VOP_LOOKUP(), VOP_UNLINK() and VOP_READDIR().
Any other directory operation is marked as invalid.
What this results in:
* an IFS partition's create permissions are controlled by the perm/ownership of
the root mount point, just like a normal directory
* Each inode has perm and ownership too
* IFS does *NOT* mean an FFS partition can be opened per inode. This is a
completely seperate filesystem here
* Softupdates doesn't work with IFS, and really I don't think it needs it.
Besides, fsck's are FAST. (Try it :-)
* Inodes 0 and 1 aren't allocatable because they are special (dump/swap IIRC).
Inode 2 isn't allocatable since UFS/FFS locks all inodes in the system against
this particular inode, and unravelling THAT code isn't trivial. Therefore,
useful inodes start at 3.
Enjoy, and feedback is definitely appreciated!
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$FreeBSD$
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ifs- inode filesystem
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ifs is the beginning of a little experiment - to remove the namespace
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from ffs. FFS is a good generic filesystem, however in high volume
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activities today (eg web, mail, cache, news) one thing causes a rather
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huge resource drain - the namespace.
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Having to maintain the directory structures means wasting a lot of
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disk IO and/or memory. Since most applications these days have their
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own database containing object->ufs namespace mappings, we can effectively
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bypass namespace together and talk instead to just inodes.
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This is a big big hack(1), but its also a start. It should speed up news
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servers and cache servers quite a bit - since the time spent in open()
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and unlink() is drastically reduced - however, it is nowhere near
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optimal. We'll cover that shortly.
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(1) not hack as evil and ugly, hack as in non-optimal solution. The
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optimal solution hasn't quite presented itself yet. :-)
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How it works:
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--
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Basically ifs is a copy of ffs, overriding some vfs/vnops. (Yes, hack.)
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I didn't see the need in duplicating all of sys/ufs/ffs to get this
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off the ground.
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File creation is done through a special file - 'newfile' . When newfile
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is called, the system allocates and returns an inode. Note that newfile
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is done in a cloning fashion:
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fd = open("newfile", O_CREAT|O_RDWR, 0644);
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fstat(fd, &st);
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printf("new file is %d\n", (int)st.st_ino);
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Once you have created a file, you can open() and unlink() it by its returned
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inode number retrieved from the stat call, ie:
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fd = open("5", O_RDWR);
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The creation permissions depend entirely if you have write access to the
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root directory of the filesystem.
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Why its nowhere near optimal
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--
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When doing file allocation in FFS, it tries to reduce the disk seeks by
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allocating new files inside the cylinder group of the parent directory, if
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possible. In this scheme, we've had to drop that. Files are allocated
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sequentially, filling up cylinder groups as we go along. Its not very optimal,
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more research will have to be done into how cylinder group locality can be
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bought back into this. (It entirely depends upon the benefits here..)
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Allowing create by inode number requires quite a bit of code rewrite, and in
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the test applications here I didn't need it. Maybe in the next phase I might
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look at allowing create by inode number, feedback, please.
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SOFTUPDATES will *NOT* work here - especially in unlink() where I've just
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taken a large axe to it. I've tried to keep as much of the softupdates call
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stubs in as much as possible, but I haven't looked at the softupdates code.
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My reasoning was that because there's no directory metadata anymore,
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softupdates isn't as important. Besides, fsck's are so damn quick ..
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Extras
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I've taken the liberty of applying a large axe to bits of fsck - stripping out
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namespace checks. As far as I can *TELL*, its close, however, I'd like it if
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someone fsck clued poked me back on what I missed.
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There's also a modified copy of mount that will mount a fs type 'ifs'. Again,
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its just the normal mount with s/"ufs"/"ifs"/g, async/noatime/etc mount
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options work just as normal.
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I haven't supplied an ifs 'newfs' - use FFS newfs to create a blank drive.
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That creates the root directory, which you still do DEFINITELY need.
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However, ifs updates on the drive will not update directory entries in '.'.
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There is a 1:1 mapping between the inode numbers in open()/stat() and the
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inodes on disk. You don't get access to inodes 0-2. They don't show up
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in a readdir. I'll work on making 2 avaliable, but since the current ufs/ffs
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code assumes things are locked against the root inode which is 2 ..
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You can find these utilities in src/sbin/mount_ifs and src/sbin/fsck_ifs .
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Yes, this means that you can tie in ifs partitions in your bootup
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sequence.
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TODO:
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* Implement cookies for NFS
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(Realise that this is a huge hack which uses the existing UFS/FFS code.
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Therefore its nowhere near as optimal as it could be, and things aren't
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as easy to add as one might think. Especially 'fake' files. :-)
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--
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Adrian Chadd
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<adrianFreeBSD.org>
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