This adds zfsloader which will be called by zfsboot/gptzfsboot code rather
than the tradional loader. This eliminates the need to set the
LOADER_ZFS_SUPPORT variable in order to get a ZFS enabled loader.
Note however, that you must reinstall your bootcode (zfsboot/gptzfsboot)
in order for the boot process to use the new loader.
New installations will no longer be required to build a ZFS enabled
loader for a working ZFS boot system. Installing zfsboot/gptzfsboot is
sufficient for acknowledging the use of CDDL code and therefore the ZFS
enabled loader.
Based on a previous patch from jhb@
Reviewed by: jhb@
MFC after: 2 weeks
fully support booting from large volumes.
Tested by: Emil Smolenski ambsd of raisa.eu.org
Submitted by: Matt Reimer mattjreimer of gmail (most of the C bits)
MFC after: 1 week
- Teach it to read gang blocks. (essentially untested)
If you see "ZFS: gang block detected!", please let
me know, so we can either remove the printf if it
works, or fix it if it doesn't.
- If multiple partitions exist on a disk, probe them all.
We also need to reset dsk->start to 0 to read the right
sector here.
- With GPT, we can have 128 partitions.
- If the bootfs property has ever been set on a pool
it seems that it never goes away. zpool won't allow
you to add to the pool with the bootfs property set.
However, if you clear the property back to default
we end up getting 0 for the object number and read
a bogus block pointer and fail to boot.
- Fix some error printfs. The printf in the loader is
only capable of c,s and u formats.
- Teach printf how to display %llu
Reviewed by: dfr, jhb
MFC after: 2 weeks
short read requests, so the result was that a /boot.config smaller than 512
bytes was ignored. boot2 uses fsread() instead of xfsread() to read
/boot.config already, so this makes zfsboot more like boot2.
Submitted by: Johny Mattsson johny-freebsd of earthmagic org
Reviewed by: dfr
MFC after: 3 days
to gptboot, i.e. installed in a freebsd-boot partition using /sbin/gpart or
/sbin/gpt.
Tweak the /boot/loader ZFS support so that it can find ZFS pools that are
contained in GPT partitions.
This bring huge amount of changes, I'll enumerate only user-visible changes:
- Delegated Administration
Allows regular users to perform ZFS operations, like file system
creation, snapshot creation, etc.
- L2ARC
Level 2 cache for ZFS - allows to use additional disks for cache.
Huge performance improvements mostly for random read of mostly
static content.
- slog
Allow to use additional disks for ZFS Intent Log to speed up
operations like fsync(2).
- vfs.zfs.super_owner
Allows regular users to perform privileged operations on files stored
on ZFS file systems owned by him. Very careful with this one.
- chflags(2)
Not all the flags are supported. This still needs work.
- ZFSBoot
Support to boot off of ZFS pool. Not finished, AFAIK.
Submitted by: dfr
- Snapshot properties
- New failure modes
Before if write requested failed, system paniced. Now one
can select from one of three failure modes:
- panic - panic on write error
- wait - wait for disk to reappear
- continue - serve read requests if possible, block write requests
- Refquota, refreservation properties
Just quota and reservation properties, but don't count space consumed
by children file systems, clones and snapshots.
- Sparse volumes
ZVOLs that don't reserve space in the pool.
- External attributes
Compatible with extattr(2).
- NFSv4-ACLs
Not sure about the status, might not be complete yet.
Submitted by: trasz
- Creation-time properties
- Regression tests for zpool(8) command.
Obtained from: OpenSolaris
