The majority of this this patch concerns itself with doing a direct
replacement of Solaris's libdiskmgt library with libblkid+libefi.
You'll notice that this patch removes all libdiskmgt code instead of
ifdef'ing it out. This was done to minimize any confusion when reading
the code because it seems unlikely we will ever port libdiskmgt to Linux.
Despite the replacement the behavior of the tools should have remained
the same with one exception. For the moment, we are unable to check
the partitions of devices which have an MBR style partition table when
creating a filesystem. If a non-efi partition sceme is detected on a
whole disk device we prompt the user to explicity use the force option.
It would not be a ton of work to make the tool aware of MBR style
partitions if this becomes a problem.
I've done basic sanity checking for various configurations and all
the issues I'm aware of have been addressed. Even things like blkid
misidentifing a disk as ext3 when it is added to a zfs pool. I'm
careful to always zero out the first 4k of any new zfs partition. That
all said this is all new code and while it looks like it's working right
for me we should keep an eye on it for any strange behavior.
The major change here is to fix up libefi to be linux aware. For
the most part this wasn't too hard but there were a few major issues.
First off I needed to handle the DKIOCGMEDIAINFO and DKIOCINFO ioctls.
There is no direct equivilant for these ioctls under linux. To handle
this I added wrapper functions which under Solaris simple call the ioctls.
But under Linux dig around the system a little bit getting the needed
info to fill in the requested structures.
Secondly the efi_ioctl() call was adapted such that under linux it directly
read or writes out the partition table. Under Solaris this work was
handed off to the kernel via an ioctl. In the efi_write() case we also
ensure we prompt the kernel via BLKRRPART to re-scan the new partition
table. The libefi generated partition tables are correct but older
versions of ~parted-1.8.1 can not read them without a small patch.
The kernel and fdisk are able to read them just fine.
Thirdly efi_alloc_and_init() which is used by zpool to determine if a
device is a 'wholedisk' was updated to be linux aware. This check is
performed by using the partition number for the device, which the
partition number is 0 on linux it is a 'wholedisk'. However, certain
device type such as the loopback and ram disks needed to be excluded
because they do not support partitioning.
Forthly the zpool command was made symlink aware so it can correctly
resolve udev entries such as /dev/disk/by-*/*. This symlinks are
fully expanded ensuring all block devices are recognized. When a
when a 'wholedisk' block device is detected we now properly write
out an efi label and place zfs in the first partition (0th slice).
This partition is created 1MiB in to the disk to ensure it is aligned
nicely with all high end block devices I'm aware of.
This all works for me now but it did take quite a bit of work to get
it all sorted out. It would not surprise me if certain special cases
were missed so we should keep any eye of for any odd behavior.
Brian Behlendorf