Add the sysctl debug.iosize_max_clamp, enabled by default. Setting the
sysctl to zero allows to perform the SSIZE_MAX-sized i/o requests from
the usermode.
Discussed with: bde, das (previous versions)
MFC after: 1 month
This restores the previous behaviour. While here, match '?' and '.'
inputs exactly and improve the error message.
Requested by: avg@
Derived from a patch by: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>
during boot.
Change the last argument of gets() to indicate a visibility flag and add
definitions for the numerical constants. Except for the value 2, gets()
will behave exactly the same, so existing consumers shouldn't break. We
only use it in two places, though.
Submitted by: lme (older version)
root file system (starting with devfs and a synthesized configuration) can
contain directives for mounting another file system as root. The old root
file system is re-mounted under the new root file system (with /.mount or
/mnt as the mount point) to allow access to the underlying file system.
The configuration allows for creating vnode-backed memory disks that can
subsequently be mounted as root. This allows for an efficient and low-
cost way to distribute and boot FreeBSD software images that reside on
some storage media.
When trying a mount, the kernel will wait for the device in question to
arrive. The timeout is configurable and is part of the configuration.
This allows arbitrarily complex GEOM configurations to be constructed
on the fly.
A side-effect of this change is that all root specifications, whether
compiled into the kernel or typed at the prompt can contain root mount
options.
it (the root mount code) into a new file called vfs_mountroot.c
The split is almost trivial, as the code is almost perfectly
non-intertwined. The only adjustment needed was to move the UMA
zone allocation out of vfs_mountroot() [in vfs_mountroot.c] and
into vfs_mount.c, where it had to be done as a SYSINIT [see
vfs_mount_init()].
There are no functional changes with this commit.
