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Just to prevent accidental and improper use when reading the layout
from disk because of the already existing disk_areas_xl[0] lists
that are variable in size. We can read pv_header_extension only
after we know exactly where the lists end...
New tools with PV header extension support will read the extension
if it exists and it's not an error if it does not exist (so old PVs
will still work seamlessly with new tools).
Old tools without PV header extension support will just ignore any
extension.
As for the Embedding Area location information (its start and size),
there are actually two places where this is stored:
- PV header extension
- VG metadata
The VG metadata contains a copy of what's written in the PV header
extension about the Embedding Area location (NULL value is not copied):
physical_volumes {
pv0 {
id = "AkSSRf-difg-fCCZ-NjAN-qP49-1zzg-S0Fd4T"
device = "/dev/sda" # Hint only
status = ["ALLOCATABLE"]
flags = []
dev_size = 262144 # 128 Megabytes
pe_start = 67584
pe_count = 23 # 92 Megabytes
ea_start = 2048
ea_size = 65536 # 32 Megabytes
}
}
The new metadata fields are "ea_start" and "ea_size".
This is mostly useful when restoring the PV by using existing
metadata backups (e.g. pvcreate --restorefile ...).
New tools does not require these two fields to exist in VG metadata,
they're not compulsory. Therefore, reading old VG metadata which doesn't
contain any Embedding Area information will not end up with any kind
of error but only a debug message that the ea_start and ea_size values
were not found.
Old tools just ignore these extra fields in VG metadata.
PV header extension comes just beyond the existing PV header base:
PV header base (existing):
- uuid
- device size
- null-terminated list of Data Areas
- null-terminater list of MetaData Areas
PV header extension:
- extension version
- flags
- null-terminated list of Embedding Areas
This patch also adds "eas" (Embedding Areas) list to lvmcache (lvmcache_info)
and it also adds support for common operations on the list (just like for
already existing "das" - Data Areas list):
- lvmcache_add_ea
- lvmcache_update_eas
- lvmcache_foreach_ea
- lvmcache_del_eas
Also, add ea_start and ea_size to struct physical_volume for processing
PV Embedding Area location throughout the code (currently only one
Embedding Area is supported, though the definition on disk allows for
more if needed in the future...).
Also, define FMT_EAS format flag to mark that the format actually
supports Embedding Areas (currently format-text only).
We'd like to pass in mda_header to vgname_from_mda(). In order to
do this, we need to call raw_read_mda_header() from text_label.c,
_text_read(), which gets called from the label_read() path, and
peers into the metadata and update vginfo cache. We should check
the disable bit here, and if set, not peer into the vg metadata,
thus reducing the I/O to disk.
In the process, move vgname_from_mda() to layout.h, since the fn
only gets called from format_text code, and we need the mda_header
definition from the private layout.h.
Signed-off-by: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@redhat.com>
Adding a flag to the 'rlocn' structure in the mda header of the
text format allows us to flip a bit to ignore an area on disk that
stores the metadata via the text format specific mda_header.
This patch defines the flag and access functions to manage the flag.
Other patches will manage the ignore on a format-independent basis,
by using a flag in the metadata_area structure.
Signed-off-by: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@redhat.com>
Future patches will make use of a specific flag in the on-disk 'raw_locn'
structure to enable/disable metadata areas, and facilitate metadata
balancing.
Note that 'filler' is always set to '0' (see add_mda() - memset),
so use of this area as a non-zero flags field is a safe way to
provide future code features.
Signed-off-by: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@redhat.com>
Fix some memory leaks in error paths found by coverity.
Use C99 struct initialisers.
Move DEFS into configure.h.
Clean-ups to remove miscellaneous compiler warnings.
