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Ben Gras
dd59d50944 mfs: mark blocks clean when invalidated
. it could happen that newly filled blocks were still marked
	  dirty
	. causing unnecessary i/o and the new warning of the superblock
	  being written
2012-01-18 17:51:04 +01:00
Ben Gras
59ff5cbd87 mfs: clean flag
. also implement now-possible fsck -p option
    	. allows unconditional fsck -p invocation at startup,
    	  only checking each filesystem if not marked clean
    	. mounting unclean is allowed but is forced readonly
    	. updating the superblock while mounted is now not
    	  allowed by mfs - must be done (e.g. by fsck.mfs)
    	  on an unmounted fs
	. clean flag is unset by mfs on mounting, and set by
	  mfs on clean unmounting (if clean flag was set at
	  mount time)

Signed-off-by: Ben Gras <ben@minix3.org>
2011-12-22 16:53:32 +01:00
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
Thomas Veerman
c89bc85009 Don't repeat out-of-space messages
This patch makes PFS, EXT2 and MFS print only once that they're out of
space. After freeing up space and running out of space again, the message
will be printed again also.
2011-12-21 10:47:28 +00:00
David van Moolenbroek
b4d909d415 Split block/character protocols and libdriver
This patch separates the character and block driver communication
protocols. The old character protocol remains the same, but a new
block protocol is introduced. The libdriver library is replaced by
two new libraries: libchardriver and libblockdriver. Their exposed
API, and drivers that use them, have been updated accordingly.
Together, libbdev and libblockdriver now completely abstract away
the message format used by the block protocol. As the memory driver
is both a character and a block device driver, it now implements its
own message loop.

The most important semantic change made to the block protocol is that
it is no longer possible to return both partial results and an error
for a single transfer. This simplifies the interaction between the
caller and the driver, as the I/O vector no longer needs to be copied
back. Also, drivers are now no longer supposed to decide based on the
layout of the I/O vector when a transfer should be cut short. Put
simply, transfers are now supposed to either succeed completely, or
result in an error.

After this patch, the state of the various pieces is as follows:
- block protocol: stable
- libbdev API: stable for synchronous communication
- libblockdriver API: needs slight revision (the drvlib/partition API
  in particular; the threading API will also change shortly)
- character protocol: needs cleanup
- libchardriver API: needs cleanup accordingly
- driver restarts: largely unsupported until endpoint changes are
  reintroduced

As a side effect, this patch eliminates several bugs, hacks, and gcc
-Wall and -W warnings all over the place. It probably introduces a
few new ones, too.

Update warning: this patch changes the protocol between MFS and disk
drivers, so in order to use old/new images, the MFS from the ramdisk
must be used to mount all file systems.
2011-11-23 14:06:37 +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
Ben Gras
49532259e5 mfs: improve & simplify secondary cache logic
. fixes "!" errors when booting from cd
2011-09-23 15:02:20 +00:00
Ben Gras
4857d5d554 add -lminixfs with fs support routines
. move cache size heuristic from mfs there
	  so mfs and ext2 can share it
	. add vfs credentials retrieving function, with
	  backwards compatability from previous struct
	  format, to be used by both ext2 and mfs
	. fix for ext2 - STATICINIT was fed no.
	  of bytes instead of no. of elements, overallocating
	  memory by a megabyte or two for the superblock
2011-09-08 16:52:13 +00:00
Thomas Veerman
8a266a478e Increase gid_t and uid_t to 32 bits
Increase gid_t and uid_t to 32 bits and provide backwards compatibility
where needed.
2011-09-05 13:56:14 +00:00
Thomas Veerman
7588db2691 Add support for VFS-FS transaction IDs 2011-07-27 15:49:42 +00:00
Ben Gras
9c01ceb576 introduce sqrt_approx() in -lsys
. use this to avoid -lm dependency in mfs
2011-07-04 02:51:12 +02:00
Ben Gras
a77c2973b3 fix clang warnings -R in kernel/ and servers/ 2011-06-09 16:09:13 +02:00
Ben Gras
c90cdadcfb auto-tune mfs cache size based on FS usage and remaining system memory 2011-02-28 14:19:19 +00:00
Ben Gras
b653422883 mfs - no more WRITE_IMMED 2010-10-11 15:35:43 +00:00
Ben Gras
491efeead9 mfs - revert part of previous commit; should not have been commited 2010-06-24 00:32:17 +00:00
Ben Gras
6cd2d1218e mfs - statvfs call, by Buccapatnam Tirumala, Gautam. 2010-06-23 23:58:16 +00:00
Kees van Reeuwijk
ed0b81c25c Removed some unused variables and functions. 2010-06-02 19:41:38 +00:00
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
Tomas Hruby
6e25ad8b0a Use of all NIL_* defines converted to NULL 2010-05-10 13:26:00 +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
Kees van Reeuwijk
bc314bda91 Remove the types Dev_t, _mnx_Gui, _mnx_Uid, and similar.
Use ANSI-style function declarations where necessary.
2010-04-13 10:58:41 +00:00
Ben Gras
35a108b911 panic() cleanup.
this change
   - makes panic() variadic, doing full printf() formatting -
     no more NO_NUM, and no more separate printf() statements
     needed to print extra info (or something in hex) before panicing
   - unifies panic() - same panic() name and usage for everyone -
     vm, kernel and rest have different names/syntax currently
     in order to implement their own luxuries, but no longer
   - throws out the 1st argument, to make source less noisy.
     the panic() in syslib retrieves the server name from the kernel
     so it should be clear enough who is panicing; e.g.
         panic("sigaction failed: %d", errno);
     looks like:
         at_wini(73130): panic: sigaction failed: 0
         syslib:panic.c: stacktrace: 0x74dc 0x2025 0x100a
   - throws out report() - printf() is more convenient and powerful
   - harmonizes/fixes the use of panic() - there were a few places
     that used printf-style formatting (didn't work) and newlines
     (messes up the formatting) in panic()
   - throws out a few per-server panic() functions
   - cleans up a tie-in of tty with panic()

merging printf() and panic() statements to be done incrementally.
2010-03-05 15:05:11 +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
David van Moolenbroek
f197bcb435 Allow servers to run with fewer privileges:
- allow non-root processes to get their own endpoint
- make alloc_contig() call sys_umap() only when requested
2009-12-02 10:06:58 +00:00
Ben Gras
a0d8cc0765 - No maximum block size any more.
- If allocation of a new buffer fails, use an already-allocated
   unused buffer if available (low memory conditions)
 - Allocate buffers dynamically, so memory isn't wasted on wrong-sized
   buffers.
 - No more _MAX_BLOCK_SIZE.
2009-09-21 14:47:51 +00:00
Ben Gras
51fdce1d36 minor fixes 2008-11-19 14:10:33 +00:00
Ben Gras
c078ec0331 Basic VM and other minor improvements.
Not complete, probably not fully debugged or optimized.
2008-11-19 12:26:10 +00:00
Ben Gras
8ea438ae93 Retired DEV_{READ,WRITE,GATHER,SCATTER,IOCTL} (safe versions *_S are to
be used and drivers should never receieve these 'unsafe' variants
any more).
2007-02-07 16:22:19 +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
Renamed from servers/fs/cache.c (Browse further)