Actually, it can even cause some problems, because GEOM requires sectorsize
to be more than 0 on first access, not on provider creation, so we can skip
valid providers by doing this check here.
Reported by: Divacky Roman <xdivac02@stud.fit.vutbr.cz>
Sven Willenberger <sven@dmv.com>
bio_driver1 (as all the rest).
This introduced a small memory leak, but it wasn't really critical,
because maximum memory for g_stripe_zone is always set, so after few
requests gstripe was working in "economic" mode.
It allows to fix problems when last provider's sector is shared between few
providers.
- Bump version number for CONCAT and STRIPE and add code for backward
compatibility.
- Do not bump version number of MIRROR, as it wasn't officially introduced yet.
Even if someone started to play with it, there is no big deal, because
wrong MD5 sum of metadata will deny those providers.
- Update manual pages.
- Add version history to g_(stripe|concat).h files.
something goes wrong while running in "fast" mode, we free all bios and
falling back to "economic" mode. Freeing bios, doesn't mean decrease
bio_children, so bio_inbed couldn't be equal to bio_children and request
was never finished.
Decrease bio_children manually when destroying bios.
Reported by: Sam Lawrance <boris@brooknet.com.au>, simon
In this mode you can setup even very small stripe size and you can be
sure that only one I/O request will be send to every disks in stripe.
It consumes some more memory, but if allocation fails, it will fall
back to "ECONOMIC" mode.
It is about 10 times faster for small stripe size than "ECONOMIC" mode
and other RAID0 implementations. It is even recommended to use this
mode and small stripe size, so our requests are always splitted.
One can still use "ECONOMIC" mode by setting kern.geom.stripe.fast to 0.
It is also possible to setup maximum memory which "FAST" mode can consume,
by setting kern.geom.stripe.maxmem from /boot/loader.conf.
is intend to be fast. Just like CONCAT class it provides manual and
auto configuration methods.
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