On 18.08.2011 4:08, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
What it contains:
* gpt/gptid support removed from GEOM_LABEL class;
* new GEOM_ALIAS class added. This class has two public functions:
void g_alias_create(struct g_provider *pp, const char *name);
void g_alias_spoil(struct g_provider *pp);
* first two consumers of GEOM_ALIAS class are GEOM_PART and GEOM_DISK:
GEOM_DISK uses g_alias_create() to create aliases for disks, disk's
serial number is used for alias name.
GEOM_PART uses g_alias_create() to create aliases for labeled partitions
(gpt/gptid, apm and pc98).
How it looks like:
http://paste.org.ru/?5exeve
What happened to this? It would be really nice to have in 9.0, or soon after
anyway. Anything I can
do to help it along?
:)
Well, there were some problems found.
AFAIR, the last patch i tested is here:
http://people.freebsd.org/~ae/geom_alias.diff
Among other things it slightly extends GEOM core to be able pass trough taste
and spoil events.
To recall for myself how it works:
I added new GEOM class - GEOM_ALIAS. It provides two public functions:
void g_alias_create(struct g_provider *pp, const char *name);
It creates one instance of geom_alias class for given provider and
this instance might have several providers (aliases).
void g_alias_spoil(struct g_provider *pp);
It destroys all aliases for given provider if they are not in use.
If some alias is used, then function only marks it as stale.
The access method of GEOM_ALIAS class destroys stale provider when it is
released.
The spoiled method calls g_spoil() for each alias, i.e. it passes spoil event to
consumers of all aliases.
The taste method checks given provider and if it has GEOM_ALIAS consumer
and it was spoiled before, then it does "retaste" for each alias.
I don't remember what were the results of testing, but looks like there is
something
that could be improved.
--
WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov
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