The work have been under testing and fixing since then, and it is mature enough
to be put into HEAD for further testing.
A lot have changed in this time, and here are the most important:
- Gvinum now uses one single workerthread instead of one thread for each
volume and each plex. The reason for this is that the previous scheme was
very complex, and was the cause of many of the bugs discovered in gvinum.
Instead, gvinum now uses one worker thread with an event queue, quite
similar to what used in gmirror.
- The rebuild/grow/initialize/parity check routines no longer runs in
separate threads, but are run as regular I/O requests with special flags.
This made it easier to support mounted growing and parity rebuild.
- Support for growing striped and raid5-plexes, meaning that one can extend the
volumes for these plex types in addition to the concat type. Also works while
the volume is mounted.
- Implementation of many of the missing commands from the old vinum:
attach/detach, start (was partially implemented), stop (was partially
implemented), concat, mirror, stripe, raid5 (shortcuts for creating volumes
with one plex of these organizations).
- The parity check and rebuild no longer goes between userland/kernel, meaning
that the gvinum command will not stay and wait forever for the rebuild to
finish. You can instead watch the status with the list command.
- Many problems with gvinum have been reported since 5.x, and some has been hard
to fix due to the complicated architecture. Hopefully, it should be more
stable and better handle edge cases that previously made gvinum crash.
- Failed drives no longer disappears entirely, but now leave behind a dummy
drive that makes sure the original state is not forgotten in case the system
is rebooted between drive failures/swaps.
- Update manpage to reflect new commands and extend it with some examples.
Sponsored by: Google Summer of Code 2007
Mentored by: le
Tested by: Rick C. Petty <rick-freebsd2008 -at- kiwi-computer.com>
practice, but it is a good programming practice nontheless and it allows the
kernel to not depend on userland correctness.
Found with: Coverity Prevent(tm)
CID: 655-659, 664-667
the geom creation to a seperate init function and ignore the tasting.
The config is now parsed only in the vinumdrive geom, which hopefully
fixes the problem, that the drive class tasted before the vinum class
had a chance, for good.
Also restore the behaviour that the module can be loaded at boot time
and on a running system.
Add functions to rename objects and to move a subdisk from one drive
to another.
Obtained from: Chris Jones <chris.jones@ualberta.ca>
Sponsored by: Google Summer of Code 2005
MFC in: 1 week
When a drive is newly created, it's state is initially set to 'down',
so it won't allow saving the config to it (thus it will never know of
itself being created). Work around this by adding a new flag, that's
also checked when saving the config to a drive.
seem to be necessary anymore, and it prevents tasting a valid drive
when booting with geom_vinum already loaded, since SCSI disks set their
sectorsize not until first opening them.
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>.
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)
