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* Provide a rc.d script for archlinuxzfs-0.6.0-rc5Kyle Fuller2011-07-1112-0/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | Unlike most other Linux distributions archlinux installs its init scripts in /etc/rc.d insead of /etc/init.d. This commit provides an archlinux rc.d script for zfs and extends the build infrastructure to ensure it get's installed in the correct place. Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <[email protected]> Closes #322
* Update 'zfs send' documentationBrian Behlendorf2011-07-081-1/+1
| | | | | | | The -D and -p options were missing from the manpage. This commit adds documentation for these features. Closes #311
* Update ztest pathsBrian Behlendorf2011-07-061-1/+3
| | | | | | | Unfortunately, ztest is hard coded to export the zdb utility to be installed in a certain location. When the packaging was updated to install zdb in /sbin/ ztest was broken. To fix this I'm updating ztest to check both common install paths.
* Use consistent error message in zpool sub-commandPrasad Joshi2011-07-041-32/+40
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The zpool sub-commands like iostat, list, and status should display consistent message when a given pool is unavailable or no pool is present. This change unifies the default behavior as follows: root@prasad:~# ./zpool list 1 2 no pools available no pools available root@prasad:~# ./zpool iostat 1 2 no pools available no pools available root@prasad:~# ./zpool status 1 2 no pools available no pools available root@prasad:~# ./zpool list tan 1 2 cannot open 'tan': no such pool root@prasad:~# ./zpool iostat tan 1 2 cannot open 'tan': no such pool root@prasad:~# ./zpool status tan 1 2 cannot open 'tan': no such pool Reported-by: Rajshree Thorat <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Prasad Joshi <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <[email protected]> Closes #306
* Linux compat 2.6.39: mount_nodev()Brian Behlendorf2011-07-0113-0/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The .get_sb callback has been replaced by a .mount callback in the file_system_type structure. When using the new interface the caller must now use the mount_nodev() helper. Unfortunately, the new interface no longer passes the vfsmount down to the zfs layers. This poses a problem for the existing implementation because we currently save this pointer in the super block for latter use. It provides our only entry point in to the namespace layer for manipulating certain mount options. This needed to be done originally to allow commands like 'zfs set atime=off tank' to work properly. It also allowed me to keep more of the original Solaris code unmodified. Under Solaris there is a 1-to-1 mapping between a mount point and a file system so this is a fairly natural thing to do. However, under Linux they many be multiple entries in the namespace which reference the same filesystem. Thus keeping a back reference from the filesystem to the namespace is complicated. Rather than introduce some ugly hack to get the vfsmount and continue as before. I'm leveraging this API change to update the ZFS code to do things in a more natural way for Linux. This has the upside that is resolves the compatibility issue for the long term and fixes several other minor bugs which have been reported. This commit updates the code to remove this vfsmount back reference entirely. All modifications to filesystem mount options are now passed in to the kernel via a '-o remount'. This is the expected Linux mechanism and allows the namespace to properly handle any options which apply to it before passing them on to the file system itself. Aside from fixing the compatibility issue, removing the vfsmount has had the benefit of simplifying the code. This change which fairly involved has turned out nicely. Closes #246 Closes #217 Closes #187 Closes #248 Closes #231
* Linux compat 2.6.39: security_inode_init_security()Brian Behlendorf2011-07-0112-0/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | The security_inode_init_security() function now takes an additional qstr argument which must be passed in from the dentry if available. Passing a NULL is safe when no qstr is available the relevant security checks will just be skipped. Closes #246 Closes #217 Closes #187
* Tear down and flush the mmap regionPrasad Joshi2011-06-2712-0/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The inode eviction should unmap the pages associated with the inode. These pages should also be flushed to disk to avoid the data loss. Therefore, use truncate_setsize() in evict_inode() to release the pagecache. The API truncate_setsize() was added in 2.6.35 kernel. To ensure compatibility with the old kernel, the patch defines its own truncate_setsize function. Signed-off-by: Prasad Joshi <[email protected]> Closes #255
* Multipath device manageability improvementsNed A. Bass2011-06-237-60/+798
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Update udev helper scripts to deal with device-mapper devices created by multipathd. These enhancements are targeted at a particular storage network topology under evaluation at LLNL consisting of two SAS switches providing redundant connectivity between multiple server nodes and disk enclosures. The key to making these systems manageable is to create shortnames for each disk that conveys its physical location in a drawer. In a direct-attached topology we infer a disk's enclosure from the PCI bus number and HBA port number in the by-path name provided by udev. In a switched topology, however, multiple drawers are accessed via a single HBA port. We therefore resort to assigning drawer identifiers based on which switch port a drive's enclosure is connected to. This information is available from sysfs. Add options to zpool_layout to generate an /etc/zfs/zdev.conf using symbolic links in /dev/disk/by-id of the form <label>-<UUID>-switch-port:<X>-slot:<Y>. <label> is a string that depends on the subsystem that created the link and defaults to "dm-uuid-mpath" (this prefix is used by multipathd). <UUID> is a unique identifier for the disk typically obtained from the scsi_id program, and <X> and <Y> denote the switch port and disk slot numbers, respectively. Add a callout script sas_switch_id for use by multipathd to help create symlinks of the form described above. Update zpool_id and the udev zpool rules file to handle both multipath devices and conventional drives.
* Add "ashift" property to zpool createChristian Kohlschütter2011-06-173-12/+25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some disks with internal sectors larger than 512 bytes (e.g., 4k) can suffer from bad write performance when ashift is not configured correctly. This is caused by the disk not reporting its actual sector size, but a sector size of 512 bytes. The drive may behave this way for compatibility reasons. For example, the WDC WD20EARS disks are known to exhibit this behavior. When creating a zpool, ZFS takes that wrong sector size and sets the "ashift" property accordingly (to 9: 1<<9=512), whereas it should be set to 12 for 4k sectors (1<<12=4096). This patch allows an adminstrator to manual specify the known correct ashift size at 'zpool create' time. This can significantly improve performance in certain cases. However, it will have an impact on your total pool capacity. See the updated ashift property description in the zpool.8 man page for additional details. Valid values for the ashift property range from 9 to 17 (512B-128KB). Additionally, you may set the ashift to 0 if you wish to auto-detect the sector size based on what the disk reports, this is the default behavior. The most common ashift values are 9 and 12. Example: zpool create -o ashift=12 tank raidz2 sda sdb sdc sdd Closes #280 Original-patch-by: Richard Laager <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <[email protected]>
* Handle /etc/mtab -> /proc/mounts symlinkBrian Behlendorf2011-06-141-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | Under Fedora 15 /etc/mtab is now a symlink to /proc/mounts by default. When /etc/mtab is a symlink the mount.zfs helper should not update it. There was code in place to handle this case but it used stat() which traverses the link and then issues the stat on /proc/mounts. We need to use lstat() to prevent the link traversal and instead stat /etc/mtab. Closes #270
* Always check -Wno-unused-but-set-variable gcc supportBrian Behlendorf2011-06-1411-11/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | The previous commit 8a7e1ceefa430988c8f888ca708ab307333b4464 wasn't quite right. This check applies to both the user and kernel space build and as such we must make sure it runs regardless of what the --with-config option is set too. For example, if --with-config=kernel then the autoconf test does not run and we generate build warnings when compiling the kernel packages.
* Check for -Wno-unused-but-set-variable gcc supportBrian Behlendorf2011-06-1411-8/+30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Gcc versions 4.3.2 and earlier do not support the compiler flag -Wno-unused-but-set-variable. This can lead to build failures on older Linux platforms such as Debian Lenny. Since this is an optional build argument this changes add a new autoconf check for the option. If it is supported by the installed version of gcc then it is used otherwise it is omited. See commit's 12c1acde76683108441827ae9affba1872f3afe5 and 79713039a2b6e0ed223d141b4a8a8455f282d2f2 for the reason the -Wno-unused-but-set-variable options was originally added.
* Default to internal 'zfs userspace' implementationBrian Behlendorf2011-05-201-10/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | We will never bring over the pyzfs.py helper script from Solaris to Linux. Instead the missing functionality will be directly integrated in to the zfs commands and libraries. To avoid confusion remove the warning about the missing pyzfs.py utility and simply use the default internal support. The Illumous developers are of the same mind and have proposed an initial patch to do this which has been integrated in to the 'allow' development branch. After some additional testing this code can be merged in to master as the right long term solution.
* Fix awk usageBrian Behlendorf2011-05-062-4/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The zpool_id and zpool_layout helper scripts have been updated to use the more common /usr/bin/awk symlink. On Fedora/Redhat systems there are both /bin/awk and /usr/bin/awk symlinks to your installed version of awk. On Debian/Ubuntu systems only the /usr/bin/awk symlink exists. Additionally, add the '\<' token to the beginning of the regex pattern to prevent partial matches. This pattern only appears to work with gawk despite the mawk man page claiming to support this extended regex. Thus you will need to have gawk installed to use these optional helper scripts. A comment has been added to the script to reflect this reality.
* Allow mounting of read-only snapshotszfs-0.6.0-rc4Brian Behlendorf2011-05-051-3/+8
| | | | | | | | With the addition of the mount helper we accidentally regressed the ability to manually mount snapshots. This commit updates the mount helper to expect the possibility of a ZFS_TYPE_SNAPSHOT. All snapshot will be automatically treated as 'legacy' type mounts so they can be mounted manually.
* Fix 'zfs set volsize=N pool/dataset'Brian Behlendorf2011-05-0211-0/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This change fixes a kernel panic which would occur when resizing a dataset which was not open. The objset_t stored in the zvol_state_t will be set to NULL when the block device is closed. To avoid this issue we pass the correct objset_t as the third arg. The code has also been updated to correctly notify the kernel when the block device capacity changes. For 2.6.28 and newer kernels the capacity change will be immediately detected. For earlier kernels the capacity change will be detected when the device is next opened. This is a known limitation of older kernels. Online ext3 resize test case passes on 2.6.28+ kernels: $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/zvol bs=1M count=1 seek=1023 $ zpool create tank /tmp/zvol $ zfs create -V 500M tank/zd0 $ mkfs.ext3 /dev/zd0 $ mkdir /mnt/zd0 $ mount /dev/zd0 /mnt/zd0 $ df -h /mnt/zd0 $ zfs set volsize=800M tank/zd0 $ resize2fs /dev/zd0 $ df -h /mnt/zd0 Original-patch-by: Fajar A. Nugraha <[email protected]> Closes #68 Closes #84
* Implemented NFS export_operations.Gunnar Beutner2011-04-2911-0/+11
| | | | | Implemented the required NFS operations for exporting ZFS datasets using the in-kernel NFS daemon.
* Use gethostid in the Linux convention.Darik Horn2011-04-251-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | Disable the gethostid() override for Solaris behavior because Linux systems implement the POSIX standard in a way that allows a negative result. Mask the gethostid() result to the lower four bytes, like coreutils does in /usr/bin/hostid, to prevent junk bits or sign-extension on systems that have an eight byte long type. This can cause a spurious hostid mismatch that prevents zpool import on 64-bit systems.
* Set -Wno-unused-but-set-variable globallyBrian Behlendorf2011-04-198-25/+33
| | | | | | | | | | | | | As of gcc-4.6 the option -Wunused-but-set-variable is enabled by default. While this is a useful warning there are numerous places in the ZFS code when a variable is set and then only checked in an ASSERT(). To avoid having to update every instance of this in the code we now set -Wno-unused-but-set-variable to suppress the warning. Additionally, when building with --enable-debug and -Werror set these warning also become fatal. We can reevaluate the suppression of these error at a later time if it becomes an issue. For now we are basically just reverting to the previous gcc behavior.
* Fix gcc compiler warning, parse_option()Brian Behlendorf2011-04-191-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When compiling ZFS in user space gcc-4.6.0 correctly identifies the variable 'value' as being set but never used. This generates a warning and a build failure when using --enable-debug. Once again this is correct but I'm reluctant to remove 'value' because we are breaking the string in to name/value pairs. While it is not used now there's a good chance it will be soon and I'd rather not have to reinvent this. To suppress the warning with just as a VERIFY(). This was observed under Fedora 15. cmd/mount_zfs/mount_zfs.c: In function ‘parse_option’: cmd/mount_zfs/mount_zfs.c:112:21: error: variable ‘value’ set but not used [-Werror=unused-but-set-variable]
* Added .gitignore for mount.zfs and zvol_idManuel Amador (Rudd-O)2011-04-072-0/+2
| | | | Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <[email protected]>
* Call udevadm trigger more safelyNed Bass2011-04-051-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some udev hooks are not designed to be idempotent, so calling udevadm trigger outside of the distribution's initialization scripts can have unexpected (and potentially dangerous) side effects. For example, the system time may change or devices may appear multiple times. See Ubuntu launchpad bug 320200 and this mailing list post for more details: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2009-January/027260.html To avoid these problems we call udevadm trigger with --action=change --subsystem-match=block. The first argument tells udev just to refresh devices, and make sure everything's as it should be. The second argument limits the scope to block devices, so devices belonging to other subsystems cannot be affected. This doesn't fix the problem on older udev implementations that don't provide udevadm but instead have udevtrigger as a standalone program. In this case the above options aren't available so there's no way to call call udevtrigger safely. But we can live with that since this issue only exists in optional test and helper scripts, and most zfs-on-linux users are running newer systems anyways.
* Fixes to enable zvol symlink creationFajar A. Nugraha2011-03-241-2/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | This commit fixes issue on https://github.com/behlendorf/zfs/issues/#issue/172 Changes: - update BLKZNAME to use _IOR instead of _IO. Kernel 2.6.32 allows read parameters (copy_to_user) with _IO, while newer kernels (tested Archlinux's 2.6.37 kernel) enforces _IOR (which is correct) - fix return code and message on error Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <[email protected]>
* Linux 2.6.28 compat, insert_inode_locked()Brian Behlendorf2011-03-2211-0/+11
| | | | | | | Added insert_inode_locked() helper function, prior to this most callers used insert_inode_hash(). The older method doesn't check for collisions in the inode_hashtable but it still acceptible for use. Fallback to using insert_inode_hash() when insert_inode_locked() is unavailable.
* Merge branch 'dracut'Brian Behlendorf2011-03-2212-18/+49
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| * Add init scriptsBrian Behlendorf2011-03-1711-0/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | To support automatically mounting your zfs on filesystem on boot a basic init script is needed. Unfortunately, every distribution has their own idea of the _right_ way to do things. Rather than write one very complicated portable init script, which would be invariably replaced by the distributions own anyway. I have instead added support to provide multiple distribution specific init scripts. The correct init script for your distribution will be selected by ZFS_AC_DEFAULT_PACKAGE which will set DEFAULT_INIT_SCRIPT. During 'make install' the correct script for your system will be installed from zfs/etc/init.d/zfs.DEFAULT_INIT_SCRIPT to the usual /etc/init.d/zfs location. Currently, there is zfs.fedora and a more generic zfs.lsb init script. Hopefully, the distribution maintainers who know best how they want their init scripts to function will feedback their approved versions to be included in the project. This change does not consider upstart jobs but I'm not at all opposed to add that sort of thing.
| * Strip 'zfsutil,remount' from /etc/mtabBrian Behlendorf2011-03-151-15/+28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When updating /etc/mtab we should be careful and strip certain options. In particular, we need to strip 'zfsutil' because if we don't the mount utility will helpfull provide it to the mount helper when we issue mount(8) again. This subverts the check that the caller is zfs(8) and not mount(8).
| * Always allow '-o remount,ro'Brian Behlendorf2011-03-151-3/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Allow the mount(8) utility to always operate on all datasets when remounting them read-only. This critical for rc.sysinit/umountroot which remounts the root filesystem read-only during shutdown to ensure everything is correctly flushed to disk. Fix minor typo, the check to set zfsutil should use the bitwise '&'. I must have accidentally hit the adjacent '*' and obviously neither the compiler or my code review caught this. Fix it now.
* | Fix 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,--as-needed' build errorBrian Behlendorf2011-03-182-3/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Compiling with 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,--as-needed' exposed the fact that there were some library linking problems introduced by mount_zfs. In particular, the libzfs library does use nvpair symbols, and mount_zfs contains no dependencies on libzpool. Closes #161 Closes #162
* | Fix getcwd() warningBrian Behlendorf2011-03-181-1/+3
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | New versions glibc declare getcwd() with the warn_unused_result attribute. This results in a warning because the updated mount helper was not checking this return value. This issue was fixed by checking the return type and in the case of an error simply returning the passed dataset. One possible, but unlikely, error would be having your cwd directory unlinked while the mount command was running. cmd/mount_zfs/mount_zfs.c: In function ‘parse_dataset’: cmd/mount_zfs/mount_zfs.c:223:2: error: ignoring return value of ‘getcwd’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result
* Check for trailing '/' in mount.zfsBrian Behlendorf2011-03-101-2/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When run with a root '/' cwd the mount.zfs helper would strip not only the '/' but also the next character from the dataset name. For example, '/tank' was changed to 'ank' instead of just 'tank'. Originally, this was done for the '/tmp' cwd case where we needed to strip the '/' following the cwd. For example '/tmp/tank' needed to remove the '/tmp' cwd plus 1 character for the '/'. This change fixes the problem by checking the cwd and if it ends in a '/' it does not strip and extra character. Otherwise it will strip the next character. I believe this should only ever be true for the root directory. Closes #148
* Fix mount helperBrian Behlendorf2011-03-096-427/+1211
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Several issues related to strange mount/umount behavior were reported and this commit should address most of them. The original idea was to put in place a zfs mount helper (mount.zfs). This helper is used to enforce 'legacy' mount behavior, and perform any extra mount argument processing (selinux, zfsutil, etc). This helper wasn't ready for the 0.6.0-rc1 release but with this change it's functional but needs to extensively tested. This change addresses the following open issues. Closes #101 Closes #107 Closes #113 Closes #115 Closes #119
* Add xvattr supportBrian Behlendorf2011-03-021-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With the removal of the minimal xvattr support from the spl this support needs to be replaced in the zfs package. This is fairly easily accomplished by directly adding portions of the sys/vnode.h header from OpenSolaris. These xvattr additions have been placed in the sys/xvattr.h header file and included as needed where simply a sys/vnode.h was included before. In additon to the xvattr types and helper macros two functions were also included. The xva_init() and xva_getxoptattr() functions were included as static inline functions in xvattr.h. They are simple enough and it was simpler to place them here rather than in their own .c file.
* Use udev to create /dev/zvol/[dataset_name] linksFajar A. Nugraha2011-02-255-2/+736
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This commit allows zvols with names longer than 32 characters, which fixes issue on https://github.com/behlendorf/zfs/issues/#issue/102. Changes include: - use /dev/zd* device names for zvol, where * is the device minor (include/sys/fs/zfs.h, module/zfs/zvol.c). - add BLKZNAME ioctl to get dataset name from userland (include/sys/fs/zfs.h, module/zfs/zvol.c, cmd/zvol_id). - add udev rule to create /dev/zvol/[dataset_name] and the legacy /dev/[dataset_name] symlink. For partitions on zvol, it will create /dev/zvol/[dataset_name]-part* (etc/udev/rules.d/60-zvol.rules, cmd/zvol_id). Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <[email protected]>
* Fix uninitialized variableBrian Behlendorf2011-02-231-1/+1
| | | | | | It was possible for rc to be unitialized in the parse_options() function which triggered a compiler warning. Ensure rc is always initialized.
* Linux 2.6.38 compat, blkdev_get_by_path()Brian Behlendorf2011-02-239-0/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | The open_bdev_exclusive() function has been replaced (again) by the more generic blkdev_get_by_path() function. Additionally, the counterpart function close_bdev_exclusive() has been replaced by blkdev_put(). Because these functions are more generic versions of the functions they replaced the compatibility macro must add the FMODE_EXCL mask to ensure they are exclusive. Closes #114
* Linux 2.6.36 compat, sops->evict_inode()Brian Behlendorf2011-02-119-0/+9
| | | | | | The new prefered inteface for evicting an inode from the inode cache is the ->evict_inode() callback. It replaces both the ->delete_inode() and ->clear_inode() callbacks which were previously used for this.
* Linux 2.6.35 compat, fops->fsync()Brian Behlendorf2011-02-119-0/+9
| | | | | | | | | The fsync() callback in the file_operations structure used to take 3 arguments. The callback now only takes 2 arguments because the dentry argument was determined to be unused by all consumers. To handle this a compatibility prototype was added to ensure the right prototype is used. Our implementation never used the dentry argument either so it's just a matter of using the right prototype.
* Linux 2.6.35 compat, const struct xattr_handlerBrian Behlendorf2011-02-109-0/+9
| | | | | | | The const keyword was added to the 'struct xattr_handler' in the generic Linux super_block structure. To handle this we define an appropriate xattr_handler_t typedef which can be used. This was the preferred solution because it keeps the code clean and readable.
* MS_DIRSYNC and MS_REC compatBrian Behlendorf2011-02-101-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | It turns out that older versions of the glibc headers do not properly define MS_DIRSYNC despite it being explicitly mentioned in the man pages. They instead call it S_WRITE, so for system where this is not correct defined map MS_DIRSYNC to S_WRITE. At the time of this commit both Ubuntu Lucid, and Debian Squeeze both use the out of date glibc headers. As for MS_REC this field is also not available in the older headers. Since there is no obvious mapping in this case we simply disable the recursive mount option which used it.
* Add missing -ldl linker optionBrian Behlendorf2011-02-108-8/+8
| | | | | | The inclusion on dlsym(), dlopen(), and dlclose() symbols require us to link against the dl library. Be careful to add the flag to both the libzfs library and the commands which depend on the library.
* Remove HAVE_ZPL from commands and librariesBrian Behlendorf2011-02-043-48/+0
| | | | | Thanks to the previous few commits we can now build all of the user space commands and libraries with support for the zpl.
* Documentation updatesBrian Behlendorf2011-02-042-10/+10
| | | | | Minor Linux specific documentation updates to the comments and man pages.
* Minimal libshare infrastructureBrian Behlendorf2011-02-049-9/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ZFS even under Solaris does not strictly require libshare to be available. The current implementation attempts to dlopen() the library to access the needed symbols. If this fails libshare support is simply disabled. This means that on Linux we only need the most minimal libshare implementation. In fact just enough to prevent the build from failing. Longer term we can decide if we want to implement a libshare library like Solaris. At best this would be an abstraction layer between ZFS and NFS/SMB. Alternately, we can drop libshare entirely and directly integrate ZFS with Linux's NFS/SMB. Finally the bare bones user-libshare.m4 test was dropped. If we do decide to implement libshare at some point it will surely be as part of this package so the check is not needed.
* Add 'zfs mount' supportBrian Behlendorf2011-02-041-4/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | By design the zfs utility is supposed to handle mounting and unmounting a zfs filesystem. We could allow zfs to do this directly. There are system calls available to mount/umount a filesystem. And there are library calls available to manipulate /etc/mtab. But there are a couple very good reasons not to take this appraoch... for now. Instead of directly calling the system and library calls to (u)mount the filesystem we fork and exec a (u)mount process. The principle reason for this is to delegate the responsibility for locking and updating /etc/mtab to (u)mount(8). This ensures maximum portability and ensures the right locking scheme for your version of (u)mount will be used. If we didn't do this we would have to resort to an autoconf test to determine what locking mechanism is used. The downside to using mount(8) instead of mount(2) is that we lose the exact errno which was returned by the kernel. The return code from mount(8) provides some insight in to what went wrong but it not quite as good. For the moment this is translated as a best guess in to a errno for the higher layers of zfs. In the long term a shared library called libmount is under development which provides a common API to address the locking and errno issues. Once the standard mount utility has been updated to use this library we can then leverage it. Until then this is the only safe solution. http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/libmount-docs/index.html
* Disable umount.zfs helperBrian Behlendorf2011-01-281-37/+103
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | For the moment, the only advantage in registering a umount helper would be to automatically unshare a zfs filesystem. Since under Linux this would be unexpected (but nice) behavior there is no harm in disabling it. This is desirable because the 'zfs unmount' path invokes the system umount. This is done to ensure correct mtab locking but has the side effect that the umount.zfs helper would be called if it exists. By default this helper calls back in to zfs to do the unmount on Solaris which we don't want under Linux. Once libmount is available and we have a safe way to correctly lock and update the /etc/mtab file we can reconsider the need for a umount helper. Using libmount is the prefered solution.
* Enable mount.zfs helperBrian Behlendorf2011-01-281-32/+188
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | While not strictly required to mount a zfs filesystem using a mount helper has certain advantages. First, we need it if we want to honor the mount behavior as found on Solaris. As part of the mount we need to validate that the dataset has the legacy mount property set if we are using 'mount' instead of 'zfs mount'. Secondly, by using a mount helper we can automatically load the zpl kernel module. This way you can just issue a 'mount' or 'zfs mount' and it will just work. Finally, it gives us common hook in user space to add any zfs specific mount options we might want. At the moment we don't have any but now the infrastructure is at least in place.
* Autoconf selinux supportBrian Behlendorf2011-01-289-0/+18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If libselinux is detected on your system at configure time link against it. This allows us to use a library call to detect if selinux is enabled and if it is to pass the mount option: "context=\"system_u:object_r:file_t:s0" For now this is required because none of the existing selinux policies are aware of the zfs filesystem type. Because of this they do not properly enable xattr based labeling even though zfs supports all of the required hooks. Until distro's add zfs as a known xattr friendly fs type we must use mntpoint labeling. Alternately, end users could modify their existing selinux policy with a little guidance.
* Fix minor compiler warningsBrian Behlendorf2011-01-062-7/+7
| | | | | | | These compiler warnings were introduced when code which was previously #ifdef'ed out by HAVE_ZPL was re-added for use by the posix layer. All of the following changes should be obviously correct and will cause no semantic changes.
* Fix block device-related issues in zdb.Ricardo M. Correia2010-12-141-9/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | Specifically, this fixes the two following errors in zdb when a pool is composed of block devices: 1) 'Value too large for defined data type' when running 'zdb <dataset>'. 2) 'character device required' when running 'zdb -l <block-device>'. Signed-off-by: Ricardo M. Correia <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <[email protected]>