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259065 07-Dec-2013 gjb

- Copy stable/10 (r259064) to releng/10.0 as part of the
10.0-RELEASE cycle.
- Update __FreeBSD_version [1]
- Set branch name to -RC1

[1] 10.0-CURRENT __FreeBSD_version value ended at '55', so
start releng/10.0 at '100' so the branch is started with
a value ending in zero.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

256281 10-Oct-2013 gjb

Copy head (r256279) to stable/10 as part of the 10.0-RELEASE cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


241720 19-Oct-2012 ed

Fix warnings found by -Wmising-variable-declarations.

This self-written compiler warning, which is hopefully going to be
committed into LLVM sources soon, warns about potentially missing
`static' keywords, similar to -Wmissing-prototypes.

- bin/pax: Move external declaration of chdname and s_mask into extern.h.
- bin/setfacl: Move setfacl.c-specific stuff out of setfacl.h.
- sbin/mount_fusefs: Remove char *progname; use getprogname().
- others: add `static' where possible.


204076 18-Feb-2010 pjd

Please welcome HAST - Highly Avalable Storage.

HAST allows to transparently store data on two physically separated machines
connected over the TCP/IP network. HAST works in Primary-Secondary
(Master-Backup, Master-Slave) configuration, which means that only one of the
cluster nodes can be active at any given time. Only Primary node is able to
handle I/O requests to HAST-managed devices. Currently HAST is limited to two
cluster nodes in total.

HAST operates on block level - it provides disk-like devices in /dev/hast/
directory for use by file systems and/or applications. Working on block level
makes it transparent for file systems and applications. There in no difference
between using HAST-provided device and raw disk, partition, etc. All of them
are just regular GEOM providers in FreeBSD.

For more information please consult hastd(8), hastctl(8) and hast.conf(5)
manual pages, as well as http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/HAST.

Sponsored by: FreeBSD Foundation
Sponsored by: OMCnet Internet Service GmbH
Sponsored by: TransIP BV


168422 06-Apr-2007 pjd

Implement a work-around for poor ggate write performance.


162395 18-Sep-2006 ru

Markup fixes.


159480 10-Jun-2006 trhodes

Fix a typo s/Made/Make. Use .Pp for a line break, it will quiet the
mdoc(7) warning.


156590 12-Mar-2006 pjd

Flush stdout after printing name of created device, so it can be properly
read when 'ggatec create' is used in backticks or its output is piped to
another command.

Submitted by: Paul Schenkeveld
MFC after: 3 days


152568 18-Nov-2005 ru

-mdoc sweep.


148511 29-Jul-2005 pjd

Update manual page after ggate rewrite.

MFC after: 1 day


147844 08-Jul-2005 pjd

Reimplement ggatec/ggated applications.

Change communication protocol to be much more resistant on network
problems and to allow for much better performance.

Better performance is achieved by creating two connections between
ggatec and ggated one for sending the data and one for receiving it.
Every connection is handled by separeted thread, so there is no more
synchronous data flow (send and wait for response), now one threads
sends all requests and another receives the data.

Use two threads in ggatec(8):
- sendtd, which takes I/O requests from the kernel and sends them to the
ggated daemon on the other end;
- recvtd, which waits for ggated responses and forwards them to the kernel.

Use three threads in ggated(8):
- recvtd, which waits for I/O requests and puts them onto incoming queue;
- disktd, which takes requests from the incoming queue, does disk operations
and puts finished requests onto outgoing queue;
- sendtd, which takes finished requests from the outgoing queue and sends
responses back to ggatec.

Because there were major changes in communication protocol, there is no
backward compatibility, from now on, both client and server has to run
on 5.x or 6.x (or at least ggated should be from the same FreeBSD version
on which ggatec is running).

For Gbit networks some buffers need to be increased. I use those settings:
kern.ipc.maxsockbuf=16777216
net.inet.tcp.sendspace=8388608
net.inet.tcp.recvspace=8388608
and I use '-S 4194304 -R 4194304' options for both, ggatec and ggated.

Approved by: re (scottl)


140415 18-Jan-2005 ru

Sort sections.


140368 17-Jan-2005 ru

Added the EXIT STATUS section where appropriate.


134937 08-Sep-2004 pjd

Fix/clean up return values checking.


130837 21-Jun-2004 pjd

Print mediasize in human readable form as well.


129511 20-May-2004 pjd

Various style.Makefile(5) improvements.

Provoked by: ru


129149 12-May-2004 ru

Polish the mdoc(7) markup.


128895 03-May-2004 pjd

Add missing command.


128882 03-May-2004 pjd

Don't repeat handshake.

This little thing can cause a deadlock, because taste mechanism start
to work after creation of ggate provider and I/O requests are sent from
other classes from the g_event thread, so number of pending events isn't 0.
Now ggatec(8) start second handshake and ggated(8) is trying to open
GEOM provider (for example md(4)) and it can't, because it hangs on
g_waitidle() in g_dev_open(). g_waitidle() cannot finish because
there is a pending read on event queue, and this read can't be
finished, because ggated(8) can't open target device.
GEOM Gate will recover from this deadlock, because requests will
timeout, but it of course isn't the best solution and I don't know
better one for now, so we should avoid opening GEOM providers while
there are pending requests in event queue.


128862 03-May-2004 pjd

Paths correction.

Pointed out by: ache, make buildworld


128836 02-May-2004 pjd

Fix compiling on 64-bit architectures.


128765 30-Apr-2004 pjd

GEOM Gate network client and control utility.