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Darik Horn 660cbada0f Quote variables in the zfs.lsb script.
For consistency and safety, quote all variables in the zfs.lsb script.
This protects in the unlikely case that any of the file names contain
whitespace.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #439
2011-12-05 09:51:55 -08:00
Darik Horn c2d9c41d50 Source /etc/default/zfs after setting defaults.
Let the administrator override all script variables by sourcing the
/etc/default/zfs file after the default values are set.

The spelling mistake in the old path name makes it unlikely that this
bug affected any users.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes: #371
2011-12-05 09:51:20 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf 5547c2f1bf Simplify BDI integration
Update the code to use the bdi_setup_and_register() helper to
simplify the bdi integration code.  The updated code now just
registers the bdi during mount and destroys it during unmount.

The only complication is that for 2.6.32 - 2.6.33 kernels the
helper wasn't available so in these cases the zfs code must
provide it.  Luckily the bdi_setup_and_register() function
is trivial.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #367
2011-11-08 10:19:03 -08:00
Ned Bass f021fe194f Use automatic variable in Makefile
As written, the $(init_SCRIPTS) rule in etc/init.d/Makefule.am
would not work as expected if the init_SCRIPTS variable were
to contain any elements other than zfs.  Fix this by replacing
the hard-coded 'zfs' reference with $@.

Signed-off-by: Ned Bass <bass6@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #410
2011-09-26 09:22:30 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf 1a2e6a635f Fix incorrect zpool_cache substitution
This regression was accidentally introduced by commit aa2b489.
I was attempting to simplify the init scripts and accidentally
confused the /etc/init.d and /etc/zfs paths.  This change reverts
the init script modifications.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #370
2011-08-22 16:01:59 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf aa2b4896c9 Fix autoconf variable substitution in init scripts.
Change the variable substitution in the init script templates
according to the method described in the Autoconf manual;
Chapter 4.7.2: Installation Directory Variables.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2011-08-19 16:26:14 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf de0a1c099b Autogen refresh for udev changes
Run autogen.sh using the same autotools versions as upstream:

 * autoconf-2.63
 * automake-1.11.1
 * libtool-2.2.6b
2011-08-08 16:30:27 -07:00
Kyle Fuller 12d06bac9b Move udev rules from /etc/udev to /lib/udev
This change moves the default install location for the zfs udev
rules from /etc/udev/ to /lib/udev/.  The correct convention is
for rules provided by a package to be installed in /lib/udev/.
The /etc/udev/ directory is reserved for custom rules or local
overrides.

Additionally, this patch cleans up some abuse of the bindir install
location by adding a udevdir and udevruledir install directories.
This allows us to revert to the default bin install location.  The
udev install directories can be set with the following new options.

  --with-udevdir=DIR      install udev helpers [EPREFIX/lib/udev]
  --with-udevruledir=DIR  install udev rules [UDEVDIR/rules.d]

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #356
2011-08-08 16:21:10 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf 76659dc110 Add backing_device_info per-filesystem
For a long time now the kernel has been moving away from using the
pdflush daemon to write 'old' dirty pages to disk.  The primary reason
for this is because the pdflush daemon is single threaded and can be
a limiting factor for performance.  Since pdflush sequentially walks
the dirty inode list for each super block any delay in processing can
slow down dirty page writeback for all filesystems.

The replacement for pdflush is called bdi (backing device info).  The
bdi system involves creating a per-filesystem control structure each
with its own private sets of queues to manage writeback.  The advantage
is greater parallelism which improves performance and prevents a single
filesystem from slowing writeback to the others.

For a long time both systems co-existed in the kernel so it wasn't
strictly required to implement the bdi scheme.  However, as of
Linux 2.6.36 kernels the pdflush functionality has been retired.

Since ZFS already bypasses the page cache for most I/O this is only
an issue for mmap(2) writes which must go through the page cache.
Even then adding this missing support for newer kernels was overlooked
because there are other mechanisms which can trigger writeback.

However, there is one critical case where not implementing the bdi
functionality can cause problems.  If an application handles a page
fault it can enter the balance_dirty_pages() callpath.  This will
result in the application hanging until the number of dirty pages in
the system drops below the dirty ratio.

Without a registered backing_device_info for the filesystem the
dirty pages will not get written out.  Thus the application will hang.
As mentioned above this was less of an issue with older kernels because
pdflush would eventually write out the dirty pages.

This change adds a backing_device_info structure to the zfs_sb_t
which is already allocated per-super block.  It is then registered
when the filesystem mounted and unregistered on unmount.  It will
not be registered for mounted snapshots which are read-only.  This
change will result in flush-<pool> thread being dynamically created
and destroyed per-mounted filesystem for writeback.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #174
2011-08-04 13:37:38 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf bfb73f9277 Add .gitignore for zfs.<distro> init scripts
Treat the automatically generated zfs.<distro> init scripts
as build products by adding them to a directory specific
.gitignore file.
2011-08-01 10:27:54 -07:00
Kyle Fuller 5faa9c0367 Turn the init.d scripts into autoconf config files
This change ensures the paths used by the provided init scripts
always reference the prefixes provided at configure time.  The
@sbindir@ and @sysconfdir@ prefixes will be correctly replaced
at build time.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #336
2011-08-01 09:54:44 -07:00
Kyle Fuller 615ab66d18 Provide a rc.d script for archlinux
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 <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #322
2011-07-11 14:12:23 -07:00
Fajar A. Nugraha 3af2ce4d68 Check for "udevadm settle" vs "udevsettle"
RHEL5 does not have udevadm, so fix initscript accordingly

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #315
2011-07-08 11:43:16 -07:00
Gunnar Beutner 8b0cf399ff Updated init scripts to enable automatic sharing of ZFS datasets.
The relevant init scripts were updated so as to automatically share
ZFS datasets using "zfs share -a" at boot time.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2011-07-06 09:20:28 -07:00
Zachary Bedell e93ced4847 Update zfs.gentoo/zfs.lsb init script
* Update paths to zpool/zfs tools,
* Log less for non-error conditions,
* Don't be fatal if umount fails at shutdown -- final init remount
  will take care of it if /usr or / are in use

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2011-07-06 09:20:14 -07:00
Gunnar Beutner c8082367cf Removed erroneous backticks in the zfs.lunar init script.
The backticks would cause the output of the zfs commands
to be evaluated as input for the if construct rather than
their exit status.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2011-07-05 11:25:48 -07:00
Gunnar Beutner 0f4524cca4 Fixed indentation in the zfs.lunar init script.
One of the blocks in the init script wasn't indented properly.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2011-07-05 11:25:48 -07:00
Andrew Tselischev b59322a0d8 Fix 'rc_parallel="YES"' error
If rc_parallel="YES" zfs starts before localmount, which leads
to "No such file or directory" error on systems with /usr on a
separate partition.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2011-07-04 13:54:59 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf 2cf7f52bc4 Linux compat 2.6.39: mount_nodev()
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
2011-07-01 13:36:39 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf 5c03efc379 Linux compat 2.6.39: security_inode_init_security()
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
2011-07-01 12:40:08 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf 2a005961a4 Ensure all block devices are available
These days most disk drivers will probe for devices asynchronously.
This means it's possible that when you zfs init script runs all the
required block devices may not yet have been discovered.  The result
is the pool may fail to cleanly import at boot time.  This is
particularly common when you have a large number of devices.

The fix is for the init script to block until udev settles and we
are no longer detecting new devices.  Once the system has settled
the zfs modules can be loaded and the pool with be automatically
imported.
2011-06-30 14:45:33 -07:00
Prasad Joshi b312979252 Tear down and flush the mmap region
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 <pjoshi@stec-inc.com>
Closes #255
2011-06-27 09:59:19 -07:00
Ned A. Bass 560bcf9d14 Multipath device manageability improvements
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.
2011-06-23 10:46:06 -07:00
Darik Horn b772aedeec Autogen refresh.
Run autogen.sh using the same autotools versions as upstream:

 * autoconf-2.63
 * automake-1.11.1
 * libtool-2.2.6b
2011-06-17 13:24:44 -07:00
Darik Horn b9f27ee765 Fix autoconf variable substitution in udev rules.
Change the variable substitution in the udev rule templates
according to the method described in the Autoconf manual;
Chapter 4.7.2: Installation Directory Variables.

The udev rules are improperly generated if the bindir parameter
overrides the prefix parameter during configure. For example:

  # ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --bindir=/opt/zfs/bin

The udev helper is installed as /opt/zfs/bin/zpool_id, but the
corresponding udev rule has a different path:

  # /usr/local/etc/udev/rules.d/60-zpool.rules
  ENV{DEVTYPE}=="disk", IMPORT{program}="/usr/local/bin/zpool_id -d %p"

The @bindir@ variable expands to "${exec_prefix}/bin", so it cannot
be used instead of @prefix@ directly.

This also applies to the zvol_id helper.

Closes #283.
2011-06-17 10:11:29 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf 2e08aedba4 Always check -Wno-unused-but-set-variable gcc support
The previous commit 8a7e1ceefa 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.
2011-06-14 16:40:35 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf 8a7e1ceefa Check for -Wno-unused-but-set-variable gcc support
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 12c1acde76 and
79713039a2 for the reason the
-Wno-unused-but-set-variable options was originally added.
2011-06-14 14:43:22 -07:00
Alexey Shvetsov 6f582dc708 Remove root 'ls' after mount workaround
This workaround was introduced to workaround issue #164.  This
issue was fixed by commit 5f35b19 so the workaround can be safely
dropped from both the zfs.fedora and zfs.gentoo init scripts.
2011-05-12 15:01:35 -07:00
Alexey Shvetsov 06abcdd3f4 Fix zfs.gentoo init script logic
* Fix zfs.ko module check
* Check 'zfs umount -a' return value
2011-05-12 14:45:57 -07:00
Alexey Shvetsov 04c22478a7 Make zfs.gentoo init script more gentoo style.
* Improved compatibility with openrc
* Removed LOCKFILE
* Improved checksystem() function
* Remove /etc/mtab check for /
* General cleanup
2011-05-12 14:42:43 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf 712f8bd87b Add Gentoo/Lunar/Redhat Init Scripts
Every distribution has slightly different requirements for their
init scripts.  Because of this the zfs package contains several
init scripts for various distributions.  These scripts have been
contributed by, and are supported by, the larger zfs community.
Init scripts for Gentoo/Lunar/Redhat have been contributed by:

  Gentoo - devsk <devsku@gmail.com>
  Lunar  - Jean-Michel Bruenn <jean.bruenn@ip-minds.de>
  Redhat - Fajar A. Nugraha <list@fajar.net>
2011-05-02 15:59:13 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf df554c148e Fix 'zfs set volsize=N pool/dataset'
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 <github@fajar.net>
Closes #68
Closes #84
2011-05-02 08:54:40 -07:00
Gunnar Beutner 055656d4f4 Implemented NFS export_operations.
Implemented the required NFS operations for exporting ZFS datasets
using the in-kernel NFS daemon.
2011-04-29 12:36:13 -07:00
Aniruddha Shankar 9caef54224 Added required runlevel info for init on Debian
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #208
2011-04-20 09:55:57 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf cbf81d4c3b Autogen refresh for kernel-insert-inode-locked.m4
Several Makefile.in's were accidentally not updated when the
kernel-insert-inode-locked.m4 check was added.  This change simply
refreshes the missed files.
2011-04-18 15:47:18 -07:00
Richard Laager f132992361 Fix a couple comments
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2011-04-07 15:46:46 -07:00
Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) f5ef7150ea Update zfs.fedora init script
Apply all of Rudd-O's changes for the Fedora init script.  The
initial init script was one I threw together based on Rudd-O's
original work.  It worked for me but it has some flaws.

Rudd-O has invested considerable time updating it to be significantly
smarter.  It now handles using ZFS as your root filesystem plus
various other quirks.  Since he is familiar with the right
way to do things on Fedora and has tested this init script we
are integrating all of his changes.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2011-04-07 10:48:11 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf 1d82906dea Set cmd paths in udev rules using --prefix
The udev/rules.d scripts must use absolute paths to their support
binaries.  However, where those binaries get installed depends
on what --prefix was set to when the package was configured.
This change makes the udev/rules.d helpers to *.in files which
are processed by configure.  This allows them to be dynamically
updated to include the specified --prefix.

Additionally, this change updates 60-zvol.rules to handle both
the 'add' and 'change' actions.  This ensures that that all
valid zvol devices are correctly linked.
2011-03-25 10:05:09 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf bdf4328b04 Linux 2.6.28 compat, insert_inode_locked()
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.
2011-03-22 12:15:54 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf 01c0e61da0 Add init scripts
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.
2011-03-17 16:51:54 -07:00
Fajar A. Nugraha 4c0d8e50b9 Use udev to create /dev/zvol/[dataset_name] links
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 <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2011-02-25 09:43:19 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf 45066d1f20 Linux 2.6.38 compat, blkdev_get_by_path()
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
2011-02-23 12:29:38 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf 2c395def27 Linux 2.6.36 compat, sops->evict_inode()
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.
2011-02-11 13:47:51 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf 7268e1bec8 Linux 2.6.35 compat, fops->fsync()
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.
2011-02-11 09:05:51 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf 777d4af891 Linux 2.6.35 compat, const struct xattr_handler
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.
2011-02-10 16:29:00 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf c5d915f423 Minimal libshare infrastructure
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.
2011-02-04 16:14:29 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf b3259b6a2b Autoconf selinux support
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.
2011-01-28 12:45:19 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf 2959d94a0a Add FAILFAST support
ZFS works best when it is notified as soon as possible when a device
failure occurs.  This allows it to immediately start any recovery
actions which may be needed.  In theory Linux supports a flag which
can be set on bio's called FAILFAST which provides this quick
notification by disabling the retry logic in the lower scsi layers.

That's the theory at least.  In practice is turns out that while the
flag exists you oddly have to set it with the BIO_RW_AHEAD flag.
And even when it's set it you may get retries in the low level
drivers decides that's the right behavior, or if you don't get the
right error codes reported to the scsi midlayer.

Unfortunately, without additional kernels patchs there's not much
which can be done to improve this.  Basically, this just means that
it may take 2-3 minutes before a ZFS is notified properly that a
device has failed.  This can be improved and I suspect I'll be
submitting patches upstream to handle this.
2010-10-12 14:55:02 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf 6283f55ea1 Support custom build directories and move includes
One of the neat tricks an autoconf style project is capable of
is allow configurion/building in a directory other than the
source directory.  The major advantage to this is that you can
build the project various different ways while making changes
in a single source tree.

For example, this project is designed to work on various different
Linux distributions each of which work slightly differently.  This
means that changes need to verified on each of those supported
distributions perferably before the change is committed to the
public git repo.

Using nfs and custom build directories makes this much easier.
I now have a single source tree in nfs mounted on several different
systems each running a supported distribution.  When I make a
change to the source base I suspect may break things I can
concurrently build from the same source on all the systems each
in their own subdirectory.

wget -c http://github.com/downloads/behlendorf/zfs/zfs-x.y.z.tar.gz
tar -xzf zfs-x.y.z.tar.gz
cd zfs-x-y-z

------------------------- run concurrently ----------------------
<ubuntu system>  <fedora system>  <debian system>  <rhel6 system>
mkdir ubuntu     mkdir fedora     mkdir debian     mkdir rhel6
cd ubuntu        cd fedora        cd debian        cd rhel6
../configure     ../configure     ../configure     ../configure
make             make             make             make
make check       make check       make check       make check

This change also moves many of the include headers from individual
incude/sys directories under the modules directory in to a single
top level include directory.  This has the advantage of making
the build rules cleaner and logically it makes a bit more sense.
2010-09-08 12:38:56 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf e70e591c51 Add initial autoconf products
Add the initial products from autogen.sh.  These products will
be updated incrementally after this point as development occurs.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2010-08-31 13:42:02 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf c9c0d073da Add build system
Add autoconf style build infrastructure to the ZFS tree.  This
includes autogen.sh, configure.ac, m4 macros, some scripts/*,
and makefiles for all the core ZFS components.
2010-08-31 13:41:27 -07:00