9 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
5c8d2ac300 Do not exit after printing usage, give geom(8) a chance to show standard
commands.
2004-09-17 08:41:15 +00:00
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
edcf2d2891 When configuring RAID3 with verification option, force synchronization
of parity component, because we can't return an EIO error for read of
every sector which wasn't written first.

Discussed with:	phk
2004-08-30 22:08:00 +00:00
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
08249e9e6e Warn the user if we are not going to use whole provider space.
Requested by:	Michael Handler <handler@grendel.net>
2004-08-28 02:34:10 +00:00
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
742925a31b Fix sysctl name. 2004-08-22 16:22:20 +00:00
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
dba915cfee Implementation of 'verify reading' algorithm, which uses parity data for
verification of regular data when device is in complete state.
On verification error, EIO error is returned for the bio and sysctl
kern.geom.raid3.stat.parity_mismatch is increased.

Suggested by:	phk
2004-08-22 16:21:12 +00:00
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
f5a2f7feac Implement new reading algorithm, which will use parity component for reading
as well, even if device is in complete state.
I observe 40% of speed-up with this option for random read operations,
but slowdown for sequential reads.
Basically, without this option reading from a RAID3 device built from 5
components (c0-c4) looks like this:

	Request no.	Used components
	1		c0+c1+c2+c3
	2		c0+c1+c2+c3
	3		c0+c1+c2+c3

With the new feature:

	Request no.	Used components
	1		c0+c1+c2+c3
	2		(c1^c2^c3^c4)+c1+c2+c3
	3		c0+(c0^c2^c3^c4)+c2+c3
	4		c0+c1+(c0^c1^c3^c4)+c3
	5		c0+c1+c2+(c0^c1^c2^c4)
	6		c0+c1+c2+c3
	[...]
2004-08-21 18:11:46 +00:00
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
925fa96b13 - Add a manual page for graid3(8) utility.
- Connect it to the build.
- Inform geom(8) about it.
2004-08-18 16:41:30 +00:00
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
c9b309abe7 Actually one can specify more than one device to stop. 2004-08-18 15:56:02 +00:00
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
2d1661a5b6 Introduce GEOM RAID3 class, i.e. kernel module, which implements RAID3
transformation and graid3(8) userland utility, which can be used for
configuration. No manual page yet, sorry.

Hardware provided by:	Daniel Seuffert
2004-08-16 06:23:14 +00:00