Make the libdevmapper fail quietly if blkid is called without root
privileges or the kernel does not include device mapper support.
(What is the device mapper _library_ doing writing to stderr, anyway?)
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Users have reported problems on newly installed systems when the
Macintosh's system clock battery is dead and the hardware clock is
returning a date of 1904. Turns out there were some bugs in handling
dates before the Unix epoch.
Addresses Red Hat Bug: #182188
probe.c (blkid_verify): Fix the bid_time sanity checking logic,
so that if last verification time is more recent than the
current time, or the comparison between the last
verification time and the current time causes an overflow,
a device verification will take place.
devname.c (blkid_get_dev): Set the initial bid_time to be
INT_MIN, to guarantee that blkid_verify will always be run
even when the system clock is insane.
dev.c (blkid_debug_dump_dev), read.c (debug_dump_dev),
save.c (save_dev): Fix the printf format for dev->bid_time
to match the fact that it is an signed type.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
On systems where is multi-path storage device is problem with duplicated
filesystems. The solution is select "the best" device. This is possible
by device-mapper library.
Short quotation from RH bugzilla:
With my patch, all dm devices remains in libblkid cache.
Only the top level dm devices are given high priority
and more appropriate node names (i.e. /dev/mapper/*) are used.
For example, if we have linear mapped dm device "ov1" over
dm device "disk1p3" which is multipath mapped to /dev/sdd3 and /dev/sdh3:
# dmsetup.static ls --tree
ov1 (253:5) <-- /dev/mapper/ov1 or /dev/dm-5
`-disk1p3 (253:4) <-- /dev/mapper/disk1p3 or /dev/dm-4
`-disk1 (253:0)
|- (8:112) <-- /dev/sdh
`- (8:48) <-- /dev/sdd
Original version of blkid will show:
# ./orig/blkid -t LABEL=mpdisk1p3 -l
/dev/sdd3: LABEL="mpdisk1p3" ... TYPE="ext3"
With my patch, blkid will show:
# ./deptree/blkid -t LABEL=mpdisk1p3 -l
/dev/mapper/ov1: LABEL="mpdisk1p3" ... TYPE="ext3"
In blkid cache, all devices are listed:
# ./orig/blkid -t LABEL=mpdisk1p3
/dev/sdd3: LABEL="mpdisk1p3" ... TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sdh3: LABEL="mpdisk1p3" ... TYPE="ext3"
/dev/dm-4: LABEL="mpdisk1p3" ... TYPE="ext3"
/dev/dm-5: LABEL="mpdisk1p3" ... TYPE="ext3"
# ./deptree/blkid -t LABEL=mpdisk1p3
/dev/mapper/ov1: LABEL="mpdisk1p3" ... TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sdd3: LABEL="mpdisk1p3" ... TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sdh3: LABEL="mpdisk1p3" ... TYPE="ext3"
/dev/dm-4: LABEL="mpdisk1p3" ... TYPE="ext3"
For more details see discussion on:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=156324
Addresses Red Hat Bug: #156324
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
for a single device.
Add a new function to the blkid library, blkid_probe_all_new().
Optimize blkid_find_dev_with_tag() so that extraneous device validation are
skipped. (Makes a difference for system with a large number of disks).
consistently when the blkid cache file is explicitly set
to /dev/null. (Addresses Debian Bug #292425)
Also expose blkid_verify() as a public function to the blkid library.
that mount will try to use the vfat filesystem. (Addresses Debian bug #287455)
Similarly, the blkid library will now return an ext3 type for ext 2/3
filesystems that have the journal capability set.
We allow files to be probed by the blkid library, to make it easier to
test the library. However, we also added safety checks to avoid saving
relative pathnames to blkid.tab, and probe_one() will only check block device
files.
1) Only one tag with a particular name can be attached to a device
at a time. This significantly simplifies the library, and was needed
to allow the cache file to be re-read and changes integrated into the
in-core version of the data structure in a simpler fashion than earlier
versions of the library.
2) To accomodate this, the ext2/ext3 filesystems are now always tagged
as "ext2" type filesystems. Ext3 filesystems are tagged with a
SEC_TYPE tag with the value ext3.
3) The new blkid_read_cache() function checks the mod time of the
cache file, and if the file has been changed since the last time the
cache file was read into memory, it is re-read. This function is now
called before probing all of the devices in the system or searching
all devices in the cache for a specific tag value.
4) After probing all devices, blkid_flush_cache() is called to write
out the cache file. This assures that all of the hard work involved
in doing a blkid_probe_all() is saved to disk.
Theodore Ts'o