The .get_sb callback has been replaced by a .mount callback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#246Closes#217Closes#187Closes#248Closes#231
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
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.
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]
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
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).
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.
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
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#101Closes#107Closes#113Closes#115Closes#119
Brian Behlendorf