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Ben Gras
44f34e53d5 VFS: Implement REQ_BPEEK.
This commit introduces a new request type called REQ_BPEEK. It
requests minor device blocks from the FS.  Analogously to REQ_PEEK,
it requests the filesystem to get the requested blocks into its
cache, without actually copying the result anywhere.

Change-Id: If1d06645b0e17553a64b3167091e9d12efeb3d6f
2013-04-24 10:18:16 +00:00
Ben Gras
bd3cde4571 Move primary cache code to libminixfs.
Add primary cache management feature to libminixfs as mfs and ext2
currently do separately, remove cache code from mfs and ext2, and make
them use the libminixfs interface. This makes all fields of the buf
struct private to libminixfs and FS clients aren't supposed to access
them at all. Only the opaque 'void *data' field (the FS block contents,
used to be called bp) is to be accessed by the FS client.

The main purpose is to implement the interface to the 2ndary vm cache
just once, get rid of some code duplication, and add a little
abstraction to reduce the code inertia of the whole caching business.

Some minor sanity checking and prohibition done by mfs in this code
as removed from the generic primary cache code as a result:
        - checking all inodes are not in use when allocating/resizing
          the cache
        - checking readonly filesystems aren't written to
        - checking the superblock isn't written to on mounted filesystems

The minixfslib code relies on fs_blockstats() in the client filesystem to
return some FS usage information.
2012-10-23 19:48:38 +02:00
Ben Gras
2bfeeed885 drop segment from safecopy invocations
. all invocations were S or D, so can safely be dropped
	  to prepare for the segmentless world
	. still assign D to the SCP_SEG field in the message
	  to make previous kernels usable
2012-06-16 16:22:51 +00:00
Ben Gras
7336a67dfe retire PUBLIC, PRIVATE and FORWARD 2012-03-25 21:58:14 +02:00
Ben Gras
9b7d357ca1 mfs: use macros to mark blocks and inodes dirty
. No functional change
	. Only serves to get hooks to do checks in
	. e.g. should things be marked dirty when we are
	  mounted readonly

Signed-off-by: Ben Gras <ben@minix3.org>
2011-12-22 01:29:27 +01:00
David van Moolenbroek
db087efac4 VFS/FS: REQ_NEW_DRIVER now provides a label 2011-11-30 19:05:26 +01:00
David van Moolenbroek
af01bda509 libbdev: initial version
The "bdev" library provides basic primitives for file systems to talk
to block device drivers, hiding the details of the underlying protocol
and interaction model.

This version of libbdev is rather basic. It is planned to support the
following features in the long run:

 - asynchronous requests and replies;
 - recovery support for underlying block drivers;
 - retrying of failed I/O requests.

The commit also changes our block-based file systems (mfs, ext2, isofs)
to make use of libbdev.
2011-11-09 14:43:25 +01:00
Thomas Veerman
6bbcab3ec4 Clean up MFS a bit:
- Remove unused includes.
 - Add include guards to headers.
 - Use unsigned variables in case they're never going to hold a negative
   value. This causes GCC's complaints to disappear and should make flexelint
   a lot happier, too.
 - Make functions private when they're used only within a module.
 - Remove unused variables.
 - Add casts where appropriate.
2010-06-01 12:35:33 +00:00
Ben Gras
86e1b9d770 fsctl.h doesn't exist. 2010-05-05 11:49:41 +00:00
Ben Gras
f78d8e74fd secondary cache feature in vm.
A new call to vm lets processes yield a part of their memory to vm,
together with an id, getting newly allocated memory in return. vm is
allowed to forget about it if it runs out of memory. processes can ask
for it back using the same id. (These two operations are normally
combined in a single call.)

It can be used as a as-big-as-memory-will-allow block cache for
filesystems, which is how mfs now uses it.
2010-05-05 11:35:04 +00:00
Thomas Veerman
958b25be50 - Introduce support for sticky bit.
- Revise VFS-FS protocol and update VFS/MFS/ISOFS accordingly.
- Clean up MFS by removing old, dead code (backwards compatibility is broken by
  the new VFS-FS protocol, anyway) and rewrite other parts. Also, make sure all
  functions have proper banners and prototypes.
- VFS should always provide a (syntactically) valid path to the FS; no need for
  the FS to do sanity checks when leaving/entering mount points.
- Fix several bugs in MFS:
  - Several path lookup bugs in MFS.
  - A link can be too big for the path buffer.
  - A mountpoint can become inaccessible when the creation of a new inode
    fails, because the inode already exists and is a mountpoint.
- Introduce support for supplemental groups.
- Add test 46 to test supplemental group functionality (and removed obsolete
  suppl. tests from test 2).
- Clean up VFS (not everything is done yet).
- ISOFS now opens device read-only. This makes the -r flag in the mount command
  unnecessary (but will still report to be mounted read-write).
- Introduce PipeFS. PipeFS is a new FS that handles all anonymous and
  named pipes. However, named pipes still reside on the (M)FS, as they are part
  of the file system on disk. To make this work VFS now has a concept of
  'mapped' inodes, which causes read, write, truncate and stat requests to be
  redirected to the mapped FS, and all other requests to the original FS.
2009-12-20 20:27:14 +00:00
Ben Gras
b267d42531 removed or optionalized verbose/debugging messages 2007-02-16 15:50:30 +00:00
Philip Homburg
bafc45a309 First cut at 64-bit file offsets in block devices for mkfs/fsck. 2006-11-27 14:21:43 +00:00
Ben Gras
fa0ba56bc9 Merge of VFS by Balasz Gerofi with Minix trunk. 2006-10-25 13:40:36 +00:00