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Author SHA1 Message Date
trociny
465b8d715b Rename HASTCTL_ defines, which are used for conversion between main
hastd process and workers, remove unused one and set different range
of numbers. This is done in order not to confuse them with HASTCTL_CMD
defines, used for conversation between hastctl and hastd, and to avoid
bugs like the one fixed in in r221075.

Approved by:	pjd (mentor)
MFC after:	1 week
2011-04-26 19:38:30 +00:00
pjd
b9551ad06f Don't open configuration file from worker process. Handle SIGHUP in the
master process only and pass changes to the worker processes over control
socket. This removes access to global namespace in preparation for capsicum
sandboxing.

MFC after:	2 weeks
2011-01-24 15:04:15 +00:00
pjd
3657e3ff87 Fix descriptor leaks: when child exits, we have to close control and event
socket pairs. We did that only in one case out of three.

MFC after:	3 days
2010-09-22 18:57:06 +00:00
pjd
31021ec9f1 Make control_set_role() more public. We will need it soon.
MFC after:	1 month
2010-08-05 19:04:29 +00:00
pjd
1c1e2e8b71 Please welcome HAST - Highly Avalable Storage.
HAST allows to transparently store data on two physically separated machines
connected over the TCP/IP network. HAST works in Primary-Secondary
(Master-Backup, Master-Slave) configuration, which means that only one of the
cluster nodes can be active at any given time. Only Primary node is able to
handle I/O requests to HAST-managed devices. Currently HAST is limited to two
cluster nodes in total.

HAST operates on block level - it provides disk-like devices in /dev/hast/
directory for use by file systems and/or applications. Working on block level
makes it transparent for file systems and applications. There in no difference
between using HAST-provided device and raw disk, partition, etc. All of them
are just regular GEOM providers in FreeBSD.

For more information please consult hastd(8), hastctl(8) and hast.conf(5)
manual pages, as well as http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/HAST.

Sponsored by:	FreeBSD Foundation
Sponsored by:	OMCnet Internet Service GmbH
Sponsored by:	TransIP BV
2010-02-18 23:16:19 +00:00