- Fix for good (I hope) force-stopping mirrors and some filure cases
(e.g. the last good component dies when synchronization is in progress).
Don't use ->nstart/->nend consumer's fields, as this could be racy,
because those fields are used in g_down/g_up, use ->index consumer's
field instead for tracking number of not finished requests.
Reported by: marcel
- After 5 seconds of idle time (this should be configurable) mark all
dirty providers as clean, so when mirror is not used in 5 seconds
and there will be power failure, no synchronization on boot is needed.
Idea from: sorry, I can't find who suggested this
- When there are no ACTIVE components and no NEW components destroy whole
mirror, not only provider.
- Fix one debug to show information about I/O request, before we change
its command.
- Remove kern.geom.mirror.sync_block_size sysctl. It is quite obvious that we
want to use the biggest size possible.
- Do not use UMA zone for sync data allocations. There could be only one
synchronization request per synchronized disk at a time, so allocate memory
for one request on whole synchronization process related to one disk.
Tested by synchronizing one component (out of three) and by synchronizing
two components (out of three) in parallel.
It allows to fix problems when last provider's sector is shared between few
providers.
- Bump version number for CONCAT and STRIPE and add code for backward
compatibility.
- Do not bump version number of MIRROR, as it wasn't officially introduced yet.
Even if someone started to play with it, there is no big deal, because
wrong MD5 sum of metadata will deny those providers.
- Update manual pages.
- Add version history to g_(stripe|concat).h files.
consumer and 'bio_pflags' which can be used by provider.
- Remove BIO_FLAG1 and BIO_FLAG2 flags. From now on new fields should be
used for internal flags.
- Update g_bio(9) manual page.
- Update some comments.
- Update GEOM_MIRROR, which was the only one using BIO_FLAGs.
Idea from: phk
Reviewed by: phk
features. The gmirror(8) utility should be used for control of this class.
There is no manual page yet, but I'm working on it with keramida@.
Many useful tests provided by: simon (thank you!)
Some ideas from: scottl, simon, phk
