bio_driver1 (as all the rest).
This introduced a small memory leak, but it wasn't really critical,
because maximum memory for g_stripe_zone is always set, so after few
requests gstripe was working in "economic" mode.
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.
understood. This makes room for additional binary compatibility in the
future.
Put fields in the class for the geom's methods and initialize the methods
of a new geom from these fields. This saves some code in all classes.
something goes wrong while running in "fast" mode, we free all bios and
falling back to "economic" mode. Freeing bios, doesn't mean decrease
bio_children, so bio_inbed couldn't be equal to bio_children and request
was never finished.
Decrease bio_children manually when destroying bios.
Reported by: Sam Lawrance <boris@brooknet.com.au>, simon
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
set gp->softc to NULL and return ENXIO when it is NULL, so GEOM
will not panic or hang, but unload one device on every 'unload'.
This make 'unload' command usable, but it have to be executed
<number of devices> + 1 times.
- Made use of 'pp' variable.
The different between the new function and g_mirror_orphan() (which was
used previously) is that syncid is bumped immediately, instead of on
first write, because when consumer was spoiled, it means, that its
provider was opened for writing, so we can't trust that its data
will be valid when it will be connected again.
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
This is really ugly way to do this, but there is no other way for now.
It allows to mount root file system from providers which belong to
those classes.
Approved by: phk
provider.
- Bump version number.
This allows for a quite interesting trick. One can setup a stripe with
stripe size of 512 bytes and create transparent provider on top of it
with sector size equal to <ndisks> * 512. The result will be something
like RAID3 without parity disk (every access will touch all disks).
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>.
