features. The gmirror(8) utility should be used for control of this class.
There is no manual page yet, but I'm working on it with keramida@.
Many useful tests provided by: simon (thank you!)
Some ideas from: scottl, simon, phk
This is really ugly way to do this, but there is no other way for now.
It allows to mount root file system from providers which belong to
those classes.
Approved by: phk
provider.
- Bump version number.
This allows for a quite interesting trick. One can setup a stripe with
stripe size of 512 bytes and create transparent provider on top of it
with sector size equal to <ndisks> * 512. The result will be something
like RAID3 without parity disk (every access will touch all disks).
vinumdrive geom with an exclusive bit. This should fix the problem
when underlying partitions overlap (i.e. the 'a' partition is at
the same offset as the 'c' partition).
Ideas borrowed from pjd@, quite a bit of testing by
Matthias Schuendehuette <msch@snafu.de>.
for unknown events.
A number of modules return EINVAL in this instance, and I have left
those alone for now and instead taught MOD_QUIESCE to accept this
as "didn't do anything".
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.
When we orphan/wither a provider, an attached geom+consumer could
end up being withered as a result and it may be in front of us in
the normal object scanning order so we need to do multi-pass. On
the other hand, there may be withering stuff we can't get rid off
(yet), so we need to keep track of both the existence of withering
stuff and if there is more we can do at this time.
This class is used for detecting volume labels on file systems:
UFS, MSDOSFS (FAT12, FAT16, FAT32) and ISO9660.
It also provide native labelization (there is no need for file system).
g_label_ufs.c is based on geom_vol_ffs from Gordon Tetlow.
g_label_msdos.c and g_label_iso9660.c are probably hacks, I just found
where volume labels are stored and I use those offsets here,
but with this class it should be easy to do it as it should be done by
someone who know how.
Implementing volume labels detection for other file systems also should
be trivial.
New providers are created in those directories:
/dev/ufs/ (UFS1, UFS2)
/dev/msdosfs/ (FAT12, FAT16, FAT32)
/dev/iso9660/ (ISO9660)
/dev/label/ (native labels, configured with glabel(8))
Manual page cleanups and some comments inside were submitted by
Simon L. Nielsen, who was, as always, very helpful. Thanks!
Now, when trying to mount file system in read-only mode it tries to
opened a device for writting to be able to update to read-write mode
latter. Ehh.
Discussed with: phk
to warn about attempts to sleep in the I/O path. This change pushes the
definition and use of 'mymutex' behind #ifdef WITNESS to avoid the cost
in non-debugging cases. This results in a clear .22% performance win for
512 byte and 1k I/O tests on my SMP test box. Not much, but every bit
counts.
not active GEOM providers, it will result in a kernel panic.
If the GEOM provider or disk goes away before the volume
configuration data gets written to the disk, it will result
in another kernel panic.
o Make sure that the drives specified for volume creation
are active GEOM providers.
o When writing out volume configuration data to associated drives,
make sure that the GEOM provider is active, otherwise continue
to the next drive in the volume.
Approved by: le, bmilekic (mentor)
