Blktap2 allows block device drivers to be layered to create more
advanced virtual block devices. However, composing a layered driver is
not exposed to the user. This patch fixes this, and allows the user to
explicitly specify a driver chain when starting a tapdisk process,
using the pipe character ('|') to explicitly seperate layers in a
blktap2 configuration string.
for example, the command:
~$ tapdisk2 -n "log:|aio:/path/to/file.img"
will create a blktap2 device where read and write requests are passed
to the 'log' driver, then forwarded to the 'aio' driver.
Signed-off-by: Ryan O'Connor <rjo@cs.ubc.ca>
- Use standard off_t and lseek() instead of non-portable off64_t and
lseek64()
- Use uuid API as documented in DCE 1.1 RPC specification
- Add NetBSD implementation for blk_getimagesize() and
blk_getsectorsize()
- Use blk_getimagesize() and blk_getsectorsize()
- Fix uuid header check
Signed-off-by: Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@citrix.com>
Benefits to blktap2 over the old version of blktap:
* Isolation from xenstore - Blktap devices are now created directly on
the linux dom0 command line, rather than being spawned in response
to XenStore events. This is handy for debugging, makes blktap
generally easier to work with, and is a step toward a generic
user-level block device implementation that is not Xen-specific.
* Improved tapdisk infrastructure: simpler request forwarding, new
request scheduler, request merging, more efficient use of AIO.
* Improved tapdisk error handling and memory management. No
allocations on the block data path, IO retry logic to protect
guests
transient block device failures. This has been tested and is known
to work on weird environments such as NFS soft mounts.
* Pause and snapshot of live virtual disks (see xmsnap script).
* VHD support. The VHD code in this release has been rigorously
tested, and represents a very mature implementation of the VHD
image
format.
* No more duplication of mechanism with blkback. The blktap kernel
module has changed dramatically from the original blktap. Blkback
is now always used to talk to Xen guests, blktap just presents a
Linux gendisk that blkback can export. This is done while
preserving the zero-copy data path from domU to physical device.
These patches deprecate the old blktap code, which can hopefully be
removed from the tree completely at some point in the future.
Signed-off-by: Jake Wires <jake.wires@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Dutch Meyer <dmeyer@cs.ubc.ca>
Keir Fraser