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# 256281 10-Oct-2013 gjb

Copy head (r256279) to stable/10 as part of the 10.0-RELEASE cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

# 219974 24-Mar-2011 mav

MFgraid/head:
Add new RAID GEOM class, that is going to replace ataraid(4) in supporting
various BIOS-based software RAIDs. Unlike ataraid(4) this implementation
does not depend on legacy ata(4) subsystem and can be used with any disk
drivers, including new CAM-based ones (ahci(4), siis(4), mvs(4), ata(4)
with `options ATA_CAM`). To make code more readable and extensible, this
implementation follows modular design, including core part and two sets
of modules, implementing support for different metadata formats and RAID
levels.

Support for such popular metadata formats is now implemented:
Intel, JMicron, NVIDIA, Promise (also used by AMD/ATI) and SiliconImage.

Such RAID levels are now supported:
RAID0, RAID1, RAID1E, RAID10, SINGLE, CONCAT.

For any all of these RAID levels and metadata formats this class supports
full cycle of volume operations: reading, writing, creation, deletion,
disk removal and insertion, rebuilding, dirty shutdown detection
and resynchronization, bad sector recovery, faulty disks tracking,
hot-spare disks. For Intel and Promise formats there is support multiple
volumes per disk set.

Look graid(8) manual page for additional details.

Co-authored by: imp
Sponsored by: Cisco Systems, Inc. and iXsystems, Inc.


# 206497 12-Apr-2010 luigi

Bring in geom_sched, support for scheduling disk I/O requests
in a device independent manner. Also include an example anticipatory
scheduler, gsched_rr, which gives very nice performance improvements
in presence of competing random access patterns.

This is joint work with Fabio Checconi, developed last year
and presented at BSDCan 2009. You can find details in the
README file or at

http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/geom_sched/


# 202437 16-Jan-2010 trasz

Add gmountver, disk mount verification GEOM class.

Note that due to e.g. write throttling ('wdrain'), it can stall all the disk
I/O instead of just the device it's configured for. Using it for removable
media is therefore not a good idea.

Reviewed by: pjd (earlier version)


# 172302 23-Sep-2007 pjd

Bring in the GEOM Virtualisation class, which allows to create huge GEOM
providers with limited physical storage and add physical storage as
needed.

Submitted by: Ivan Voras
Sponsored by: Google Summer of Code 2006
Approved by: re (kensmith)


# 169586 15-May-2007 marcel

Add gpart(8).

In order to support gpart(8), geom(8) needs to support a named
argument. Also, optional string parameters are a requirement.
Both have been added to the infrastructure. The former required
all existing classes to be adjusted.


# 167050 27-Feb-2007 mjacob

First cut at GEOM based multipath. This is an active/passive{/passive...}
arrangement that has no intrinsic internal knowledge of whether devices
it is given are truly multipath devices. As such, this is a simplistic
approach, but still a useful one.

The basic approach is to (at present- this will change soon) use camcontrol
to find likely identical devices and and label the trailing sector of the
first one. This label contains both a full UUID and a name. The name is
what is presented in /dev/multipath, but the UUID is used as a true
distinguishor at g_taste time, thus making sure we don't have chaos
on a shared SAN where everyone names their data multipath as "Fred".

The first of N identical devices (and N *may* be 1!) becomes the active
path until a BIO request is failed with EIO or ENXIO. When this occurs,
the active disk is ripped away and the next in a list is picked to
(retry and) continue with.

During g_taste events new disks that meet the match criteria for existing
multipath geoms get added to the tail end of the list.

Thus, this active/passive setup actually does work for devices which
go away and come back, as do (now) mpt(4) and isp(4) SAN based disks.

There is still a lot to do to improve this- like about 5 of the 12
recommendations I've received about it, but it's been functional enough
for a while that it deserves a broader test base.

Reviewed by: pjd
Sponsored by: IronPort Systems
MFC: 2 months


# 163851 31-Oct-2006 pjd

Hook up gjournal bits to the build.

Sponsored by: home.pl


# 163048 06-Oct-2006 ru

A GEOM cache can speed up read performance by sending fixed size
read requests to its consumer. It has been developed to address
the problem of a horrible read performance of a 64k blocksize FS
residing on a RAID3 array with 8 data components, where a single
disk component would only get 8k read requests, thus effectively
killing disk performance under high load. Documentation will be
provided later. I'd like to thank Vsevolod Lobko for his bright
ideas, and Pawel Jakub Dawidek for helping me fix the nasty bug.


# 156813 17-Mar-2006 ru

Reimplementation of world/kernel build options. For details, see:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2006-March/061725.html

The src.conf(5) manpage is to follow in a few days.

Brought to you by: imp, jhb, kris, phk, ru (all bugs are mine)


# 149534 27-Aug-2005 marius

As with NO_CRYPT, don't try to compile geli(8) when NO_OPENSSL is defined
either.

MFC after: 1 week


# 148649 02-Aug-2005 ru

Add missing check for the NO_CRYPT build option.

Reported by: Alexander Polakov


# 148464 27-Jul-2005 pjd

I think I found the problem, reconnect geli to the build.


# 148462 27-Jul-2005 pjd

Disconnect geli from the build for now.
I need to find out first what is the cause of sha2.c compilation problem
on alpha.


# 148457 27-Jul-2005 pjd

Connect GEOM_ELI class to the build.

MFC after: 1 week


# 140075 11-Jan-2005 pjd

Connect SHSEC GEOM class to the build.


# 133812 16-Aug-2004 pjd

Connect RAID3 GEOM class to the build.


# 132905 30-Jul-2004 pjd

Connect GEOM_MIRROR class to the build.


# 131476 02-Jul-2004 pjd

Introduce GEOM_LABEL class.
This class is used for detecting volume labels on file systems:
UFS, MSDOSFS (FAT12, FAT16, FAT32) and ISO9660.
It also provide native labelization (there is no need for file system).

g_label_ufs.c is based on geom_vol_ffs from Gordon Tetlow.
g_label_msdos.c and g_label_iso9660.c are probably hacks, I just found
where volume labels are stored and I use those offsets here,
but with this class it should be easy to do it as it should be done by
someone who know how.
Implementing volume labels detection for other file systems also should
be trivial.

New providers are created in those directories:
/dev/ufs/ (UFS1, UFS2)
/dev/msdosfs/ (FAT12, FAT16, FAT32)
/dev/iso9660/ (ISO9660)
/dev/label/ (native labels, configured with glabel(8))

Manual page cleanups and some comments inside were submitted by
Simon L. Nielsen, who was, as always, very helpful. Thanks!


# 129470 20-May-2004 pjd

Bring in geom(8) utility. It is an universal utility for operating on
GEOM classes. It works by loading a shared library via dlopen(3) mechanism
with class-specific code, it is also responsible for communicating with
GEOM via libgeom(3).
Per-class shared libraries are going to be stored in /lib/geom/ directory.
It provides also few standard commands like 'list', 'load' and 'unload'
for existing classes which aren't aware of geom(8).
More info will be send on freebsd-current@ mailing list.

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