The logical disks will appear as /dev/lvm/<vol group>-<logical vol>, for
instance /dev/lvm/vg0-home. GLVM currently supports linear stripes with
segments on multiple physical disks. The metadata is read only, logical
volumes can not be allocated or resized.
Reviewed by: Ivan Voras
o BSD disklabels have relative offsets. Even for the BSD in MBR slice
setup, except when the mbroffset ioctl is supported. Since we don't
support that ioctl, bsdlabel(8) expects relative offsets. So, when
reading an existing disklabel, correct for disklabels that mistakenly
have the mbroffset offsets.
o Don't take the geometry seriously, because it's untrustworthy. We do
expect the numbers to be within range. This means that the secperunit
field will not be computed from secpercyl and ncyls, but simply is
the mediasize in sectors.
o Don't enforce partitions to be aligned to track boundaries. The
default label, constructed by bsdlabel(8), puts partition a at offset
BBSIZE bytes, which commonly means sector 16.
or any other bio chopping geom a reasonable size of work.
Check for delivered signals between chunks, because the request size
and service time is unbounded.
XXX: This only works currently with GEOM_GPT which only exists in 6.x.
XXX: I didn't add 'mbroffset' support for a GPT partition holding a BSD
label as I'm not sure if they use relative or absolute offsets.
MFC after: 3 days
o Disklabels can have between 8 and 20 partitions (inclusive).
o No device special file is created for the raw partition.
o Switch ia64 to use this backend.
o No support for boot code yet.
on i386 and amd64 machines. The overall process is that /boot/pmbr lives
in the PMBR (similar to /boot/mbr for MBR disks) and is responsible for
locating and loading /boot/gptboot. /boot/gptboot is similar to /boot/boot
except that it groks GPT rather than MBR + bsdlabel. Unlike /boot/boot,
/boot/gptboot lives in its own dedicated GPT partition with a new
"FreeBSD boot" type. This partition does not have a fixed size in that
/boot/pmbr will load the entire partition into the lower 640k. However,
it is limited in that it can only be 545k. That's still a lot better than
the current 7.5k limit for boot2 on MBR. gptboot mostly acts just like
boot2 in that it reads /boot.config and loads up /boot/loader. Some more
details:
- Include uuid_equal() and uuid_is_nil() in libstand.
- Add a new 'boot' command to gpt(8) which makes a GPT disk bootable using
/boot/pmbr and /boot/gptboot. Note that the disk must have some free
space for the boot partition.
- This required exposing the backend of the 'add' function as a
gpt_add_part() function to the rest of gpt(8). 'boot' uses this to
create a boot partition if needed.
- Don't cripple cgbase() in the UFS boot code for /boot/gptboot so that
it can handle a filesystem > 1.5 TB.
- /boot/gptboot has a simple loader (gptldr) that doesn't do any I/O
unlike boot1 since /boot/pmbr loads all of gptboot up front. The
C portion of gptboot (gptboot.c) has been repocopied from boot2.c.
The primary changes are to parse the GPT to find a root filesystem
and to use 64-bit disk addresses. Currently gptboot assumes that the
first UFS partition on the disk is the / filesystem, but this algorithm
will likely be improved in the future.
- Teach the biosdisk driver in /boot/loader to understand GPT tables.
GPT partitions are identified as 'disk0pX:' (e.g. disk0p2:) which is
similar to the /dev names the kernel uses (e.g. /dev/ad0p2).
- Add a new "freebsd-boot" alias to g_part() for the new boot UUID.
MFC after: 1 month
Discussed with: marcel (some things might still change, but am committing
what I have so far)
to kproc_xxx as they actually make whole processes.
Thos makes way for us to add REAL kthread_create() and friends
that actually make theads. it turns out that most of these
calls actually end up being moved back to the thread version
when it's added. but we need to make this cosmetic change first.
I'd LOVE to do this rename in 7.0 so that we can eventually MFC the
new kthread_xxx() calls.
Without this change the following situation was possible:
1. Provider is orphaned from within class' access() method on last write
close - orphan provider event is send.
2. GEOM detects last write close on a provider and sends new provider event.
3. g_orphan_register() is called, and calls all orphan methods of attached
consumers.
4. New provider event is executed on orphaned provider, all classes can
taste already orphaned provider, and some may attach consumers to it.
Those consumers will never go away, because the g_orphan_register()
was already called.
We end up with a zombie provider.
With this change, at step 3, we will cancel new provider event.
How to repeat this problem:
# mdconfig -a -t malloc -s 10m
# geli init -i 0 md0
# geli attach md0
# newfs -L test /dev/md0.eli
# mount /dev/ufs/test /mnt/tmp
# geli detach -l md0.eli
# umount /mnt/tmp
# glabel status
Name Status Components
ufs/test N/A N/A
Reviewed by: phk
Approved by: re (kensmith)
providers with limited physical storage and add physical storage as
needed.
Submitted by: Ivan Voras
Sponsored by: Google Summer of Code 2006
Approved by: re (kensmith)
don't have it. Some partitioning schemes, as well as file systems,
operate on the geometry and without it such schemes (e.g. MBR)
and file systems (e.g. FAT) can't be created. This is useful for
memory disks.
- Use thread_lock() rather than sched_lock for per-thread scheduling
sychronization.
- Use the per-process spinlock rather than the sched_lock for per-process
scheduling synchronization.
Tested by: kris, current@
Tested on: i386, amd64, ULE, 4BSD, libthr, libkse, PREEMPTION, etc.
Discussed with: kris, attilio, kmacy, jhb, julian, bde (small parts each)
sysctl_handle_int is not sizeof the int type you want to export.
The type must always be an int or an unsigned int.
Remove the instances where a sizeof(variable) is passed to stop
people accidently cut and pasting these examples.
In a few places this was sysctl_handle_int was being used on 64 bit
types, which would truncate the value to be exported. In these
cases use sysctl_handle_quad to export them and change the format
to Q so that sysctl(1) can still print them.
exists and contains the 'C' flag.
o The partition label can be the empty string. It's how labels are
cleared.
o When an action fails, lower permissions when they were raised
in order to allow the action. A failed action will not result
in any uncommitted changes.
o Allow the flags paremeter to be present but empty. It's the
equivalent of not being present.
119373: o Remove the query verb, along with the request and response
parameters.
o Add the version and output parameters.
119390: [APM,GPT] Properly clear deleted entries.
119394: o Make the alias the standard and use the '!' to prefix
literal partition types.
o Treat schemes and partition types as case insensitive.
119462: [GPT] Fix a page fault caused when modifying a partition entry
without a new partition type.
DIOCGFLUSH - Flush write cache (sends BIO_FLUSH).
DIOCGDELETE - Delete data (mark as unused) (sends BIO_DELETE).
DIOCGIDENT - Get provider's uniqe and fixed identifier (asks for
GEOM::ident attribute).
First two are self-explanatory, but the last one might not be. Here are
properties of provider's ident:
- ident value is preserved between reboots,
- provider can be detached/attached and ident is preserved,
- provider's name can change - ident can't,
- ident value should not be based on on-disk metadata; in other words
copying whole data from one disk to another should not yield the same
ident for the other disk,
- there could be more than one provider with the same ident, but only if
they point at exactly the same physical storage, this is the case for
multipathing for example,
- GEOM classes that consumes single providers and provide single providers,
like geli, gbde, should just attach class name to the ident of the
underlying provider,
- ident is an ASCII string (is printable),
- ident is optional and applications can't relay on its presence.
The main purpose for this is that application and remember provider's ident
and once it tries to open provider by its name again, it may compare idents
to be sure this is the right provider. If it is not (idents don't match),
then it can open provider by its ident.
OK'ed by: phk
