replace this with vinum.4, but that's the kernel interface manual, which
is not appropriate in my understanding. I think that gvinum is a suitable
replacement for this.
PR: docs/121938
Submitted by: "Federico" <federicogalvezdurand at yahoo dot com>
MFC after: 3 days
Implement -E option which will erase the filesystem sectors before
making the new filesystem. Reserved space in front of the superblock
(bootcode) is not erased.
NB: Erasing can take as long time as writing every sector sequentially.
This is relevant for all flash based disks which use wearlevelling.
return -1 on error while any other return value from it can
indicate success. (See RETURN VALUE in our ioctl(2) manpage
and the POSIX spec.)
- Avoid assumptions about the state of the data buffer after
ioctl(2) failure.
Add a new option to newfs(8), -r, to specify reserved space at the
end of the device. It can be useful, e.g., when the device is to
become a member of a gmirror array later w/o losing the file system
on it.
Document the new option in the manpage.
While I'm here, improve error handling for -s option, which is
syntactically similar to -r; and document the fact that -s0 selects
the default fs size explicitly, which can be useful, e.g., in a
menu-based wrapper around newfs(8) requiring some value be entered
for the fs size.
Also fix a small typo in the help line for -s (missing space).
Idea and initial implementation by: marck
Discussed on: -fs
Critical review by: bde
Tested with: cmp(1)
affect the largest file size that is allowed by the file system.
On the other hand, when creating a snapshot, the snapshot file will
appear as it is as big as the file system itself. Hence we will not
be able to create a file system on large file systems with small
block sizes.
Add a warning about this, and gives some hints to correct the issue.
Reviewed by: mckusick
MFC After: 1 week
the new filesystem. This is intended for memory and vnode filesystems
that will never be fsck'ed or dumped.
Obtained from: St. Bernard Software RAPID
MFC after: 2 weeks
has only been partly initialized via newfs(8) so that it applies to both
UFS1 and UFS2.
Submitted by: "Xin LI" delphij at frontfree dot net
MFC: maybe?
permits users of newfs to set the multilabel flag on UFS1 and UFS2
file systems from inception without using tunefs.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, McAfee Research
of newfs, to signify the newfs operation has not yet completed. Re-
write the superblock with the correct magic number once all of the
cylinder groups have been created to show the operation has finished.
Sponsored by: St. Bernard Software
a new filesystem. Dump and fsck will create snapshots in this
directory rather than in the root for two reasons:
1) For terabyte-sized filesystems, the snapshot may require many
minutes to build. Although the filesystem will not be suspended
during most of the snapshot build, the snapshot file itself is
locked during the entire snapshot build period. Thus, if it is
accessed during the period that it is being built, the process
trying to access it will block holding its containing directory
locked. If the snapshot is in the root, the root will lock and
the system will come to a halt until the snapshot finishes. By
putting the snapshot in a subdirectory, it is out of the likely
path of any process traversing through the root and hence much
less likely to cause a lock race to the root.
2) The dump program is usually run by a non-root user running with
operator group privilege. Such a user is typically not permitted
to create files in the root of a filesystem. By having a directory
in group operator with group write access available, such a user
will be able to create a snapshot there. Having the dump program
create its snapshot in a subdirectory below the root will benefit
from point (1) as well.
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
The old way of just returning could result in a file system
extremely likely to panic the kernel. The warning printed
wouldn't help much since tools invoking newfs(8), e.g., mdmfs(8),
couldn't detect the error.
PR: bin/55078
MFC after: 1 week
with UFS1, the UFS1 superblocks were not deleted. This allowed any
RELENG_4 (or other non-UFS2-aware) fsck to think it knew how to "fix"
the file system, resulting in severe data scrambling.
This patch is a more advanced version than the one originally submitted.
Lukas improved it based on feedback from Kirk, and testing by me. It
blanks all UFS1 superblocks (if any) during a UFS2 newfs, thereby causing
fsck's that are not UFS2 aware to generate the "SEARCH FOR ALTERNATE
SUPER-BLOCK FAILED" message, and exit without damaging the fs.
PR: bin/51619
Submitted by: Lukas Ertl <l.ertl@univie.ac.at>
Reviewed by: kirk
Approved by: re (scottl)
changed to use libufs in revision 1.71. Without this, any write
failures in newfs were silently ignored.
Note that this will display a meaningless errno string in the case
of a short write as opposed to a write error, since bwrite()'s
return value does not allow the caller to determine if errno is
valid.
Reported by: Lukas Ertl <l.ertl@univie.ac.at>
Reviewed by: jmallett
Approved by: re (bmah)
FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE and later:
- newfs(8) will now create UFS2 file systems unless UFS1 is specifically
requested (-O1). To do this, I just twiddled the Oflag default.
- sysinstall(8) will now select UFS2 as the default layout for new
file systems unless specifically requested (use '1' and '2' to change
the file system layout in the disk labeler). To do this, I inverted
the ufs2 flag into a ufs1 flag, since ufs2 is now the default and
ufs1 is the edge case. There's a slight semantic change in the
key behavior: '2' no longer toggles, it changes the selection to UFS2.
This is very similar to a patch David O'Brien sent me at one point, and
that I couldn't find.
Approved by: re (telecon)
Reviewed by: mckusick, phk, bmah
values for the initial inode generation numbers in newfs and for
newly allocated inode generation numbers in the kernel.
Submitted by: Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
version of such. Differences in filesystems generated were found to be
from 1) sbwrite with the "all" parameter 2) removal of writecache. The
sbwrite call was made to perform as the original version, and otherwise
this was checked against a version of newfs with the write cache removed.
so that fsck does not complain with `SUMMARY BLK COUNT(S) WRONG IN
SUPERBLK' the first time it is run on a new filesystem.
Reported by: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freebsd.org>
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
that the kernel will refuse to mount. Specifically it now enforces
the MAXBSIZE blocksize limit. This update also fixes a problem where
newfs could segment fault if the selected fragment size was too large.
PR: bin/30959
Submitted by: Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net>
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
the old 8-bit fs_old_flags to the new location the first time that the
filesystem is mounted by a new kernel. One of the unused flags in
fs_old_flags is used to indicate that the flags have been moved.
Leave the fs_old_flags word intact so that it will work properly if
used on an old kernel.
Change the fs_sblockloc superblock location field to be in units
of bytes instead of in units of filesystem fragments. The old units
did not work properly when the fragment size exceeeded the superblock
size (8192). Update old fs_sblockloc values at the same time that
the flags are moved.
Suggested by: BOUWSMA Barry <freebsd-misuser@netscum.dyndns.dk>
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
