o ATA is now fully newbus'd and split into modules.
This means that on a modern system you just load "atapci and ata"
to get the base support, and then one or more of the device
subdrivers "atadisk atapicd atapifd atapist ataraid".
All can be loaded/unloaded anytime, but for obvious reasons you
dont want to unload atadisk when you have mounted filesystems.
o The device identify part of the probe has been rewritten to fix
the problems with odd devices the old had, and to try to remove
so of the long delays some HW could provoke. Also probing is done
without the need for interrupts, making earlier probing possible.
o SATA devices can be hot inserted/removed and devices will be created/
removed in /dev accordingly.
NOTE: only supported on controllers that has this feature:
Promise and Silicon Image for now.
On other controllers the usual atacontrol detach/attach dance is
still needed.
o Support for "atomic" composite ATA requests used for RAID.
o ATA RAID support has been rewritten and and now supports these
metadata formats:
"Adaptec HostRAID"
"Highpoint V2 RocketRAID"
"Highpoint V3 RocketRAID"
"Intel MatrixRAID"
"Integrated Technology Express"
"LSILogic V2 MegaRAID"
"LSILogic V3 MegaRAID"
"Promise FastTrak"
"Silicon Image Medley"
"FreeBSD PseudoRAID"
o Update the ioctl API to match new RAID levels etc.
o Update atacontrol to know about the new RAID levels etc
NOTE: you need to recompile atacontrol with the new sys/ata.h,
make world will take care of that.
NOTE2: that rebuild is done differently from the old system as
the rebuild is now done piggybacked on read requests to the
array, so atacontrol simply starts a background "dd" to rebuild
the array.
o The reinit code has been worked over to be much more robust.
o The timeout code has been overhauled for races.
o Support of new chipsets.
o Lots of fixes for bugs found while doing the modulerization and
reviewing the old code.
Missing or changed features from current ATA:
o atapi-cd no longer has support for ATAPI changers. Todays its
much cheaper and alot faster to copy those CD images to disk
and serve them from there. Besides they dont seem to be made
anymore, maybe for that exact reason.
o ATA RAID can only read metadata from all the above metadata formats,
not write all of them (Promise and Highpoint V2 so far). This means
that arrays can be picked up from the BIOS, but they cannot be
created from FreeBSD. There is more to it than just the missing
write metadata support, those formats are not unique to a given
controller like Promise and Highpoint formats, instead they exist
for several types, and even worse, some controllers can have
different formats and its impossible to tell which one.
The outcome is that we cannot reliably create the metadata of those
formats and be sure the controller BIOS will understand it.
However write support is needed to update/fail/rebuild the arrays
properly so it sits fairly high on the TODO list.
o So far atapicam is not supported with these changes. When/if this
will change is up to the maintainer of atapi-cam so go there for
questions.
HW donated by: Webveveriet AS
HW donated by: Frode Nordahl
HW donated by: Yahoo!
HW donated by: Sentex
Patience by: Vife and my boys (and even the cats)
report on the status of a format already running on a drive.
Fix status reporting for 'camcontrol format'. This was broken in rev 1.34
of camcontrol.c, almost 4 years ago!
Submitted by: joerg (most of the reportonly changes)
MFC after: 3 days
This unbreaks "/rescue/mount -t foo" -- previously it was necessary to
explicitly call "/rescue/mount_foo".
Hints from: gordon
X-MFC after: 3 days (if approved by re@)
.depends other then the commant line.
Also remove -g from CFLAGS. The user should add it to CFLAGS if they
desire debug support.
Reviewed by: ru (in concept)
MFC After: 7 days
based tapes, but I'm not sure where NFS_MAGIC was introduced after
4.3). When support for the pre-4.4 format was removed (the ability to
read 4.2 and 4.3 BSD tapes), the old format inode conversion was
junked as well. However, FreeBSD 1 dump tapes use the NFS_MAGIC
format, but have this inode format. Before, restore would fail
complaining that '.' wasn't found and the root directory wasn't on
this tape. Since the conversion from the not so old format is
relatively trivial, restore the code to make that conversion.
FreeBSD 1 dumps are once again readable.
MFC After: a few days
for the old (4.4-lite through FreeBSD 4.x and *BSD) format. It looks
like they aren't used for TS_INODE, but conversion costs so little
there that I've not removed them there (in case my grep was wrong).
This makes at least some of the tapes work for me again. Now, to
regresion test all my dusty tapes...
usage for a subcommand, so no 'usage' function has to be implemented
in class library.
- Bump version number as it breaks ABI, but don't provide backward
compatibility, because there are probably no external consumers of this
geom(8).
This allows to print more precise usage for standard commands and simplify
class libraries a bit.
MFC after: 1 week
warning on 64-bit platforms. Explicitly cast these values to int
to work around this issue, as these values are tend to be small.
Spotted by: ia64 tinderbox
providers.
This prevents from listing geoms like <name>.sync which can be confusing.
It still allows to show details about it by giving its name when listing.
MFC after: 1 week
initializing the sysctl mibs data before actually using them.
The original patchset (which is the actual version that is running
on my testboxes) have checked whether all of these sysctls and
refuses to do background fsck if we don't have them. Kirk has
pointed out that refusing running fsck on old kernels is pointless,
as old kernels will recompute the summary at mount time, so I
have removed these checks.
Unfortunatelly, as the checks will initialize the mib values of
those sysctl's, and which are vital for the runtime summary
adjustment to work, we can not simply remove the check, which
will lead to problem when running background fsck over a dirty
volume. Add these checks in a different way: give a warning rather
than refusing to work, and complain if the functionality is not
available when adjustments are necessary.
Noticed by: A power failure at my lab
Pointy hat: me
MFC After: 3 days
