gptboot rewrite, bootonce, etc.

[Oliver Pinter]

Hi PJD!

Can you this patcheset release for 7-STABLE?

On 9/19/10, Boris Samorodov <bsam at ipt.ru> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Sat, 18 Sep 2010 01:45:42 +0200 Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
>
>> My company was in need for functionality similar to nextboot(8), but on
>> boot loader level, so we can have two partitions we boot from where one
>> is known to be good and the other is used for upgrades. We upgrade by
>> dd(1)ing entire partition image onto unused partition, we mark it as
>> try-to-boot-from-it-but-only-once, reboot and if we fail to boot from
>> the new partition, we fall back to the old, good partition. If we
>> succeed on the other hand, we mark the new partition as our boot
>> partition and mark the other one as unused.
>
>> Well, how hard can it be?
>
>> After around two weeks of work, I ended up rewriting gptboot in large
>> parts, reorganizing a lot of code, improving and extending gpart a bit
>> and implementing desire functionality.
>
>> Here is the patch for review and test:
>
>> 	http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/patches/gptboot.patch
>
> Great! Since I need to have both i386 and amd64 at my box
> here are my test results:
> -----
> [~]bsam at alya% uname -a
> FreeBSD alya 9.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #1 r212758M: Sat Sep 18
> 16:13:38 MSD 2010
> bsam at alya:/space/FreeBSD/base/head/obj/space/FreeBSD/base/head/src/sys/ALYA
> amd64
>
> [~]bsam at alya% glabel status
>                                       Name  Status  Components
> gptid/c6053c9b-abcc-11df-b740-00251124aff4     N/A  ad4p1
>                              label/9-amd64     N/A  ad4p2
>                                 label/swap     N/A  ad4p3
>                                label/space     N/A  ad4p4
>                               label/9-i386     N/A  ad4p5
> [~]bsam at alya% mount
> /dev/label/9-amd64 on / (ufs, local)
> devfs on /dev (devfs, local, multilabel)
> /dev/label/space on /space (ufs, local)
> /dev/md0 on /tmp (ufs, local, nosuid, soft-updates)
> procfs on /proc (procfs, local)
> linprocfs on /compat/linux/proc (linprocfs, local)
> linsysfs on /compat/linux/sys (linsysfs, local)
> fdescfs on /dev/fd (fdescfs)
>
> [~]bsam at alya% gpart show
> =>       34  490234685  ad4  GPT  (234G)
>          34        128    1  freebsd-boot  (64K)
>         162   41943040    2  freebsd-ufs  (20G)
>    41943202    8388608    3  freebsd-swap  (4.0G)
>    50331810  209715200    4  freebsd-ufs  (100G)
>   260047010   41943040    5  freebsd-ufs  (20G)
>   301990050  188244669       - free -  (90G)
>
> [~]bsam at alya% gpart set -a bootme -i 2 ad4
> bootme set on ad4p2
> [~]bsam at alya% gpart set -a bootonce -i 5 ad4
> bootonce set on ad4p5
> [~]bsam at alya% gpart show
> =>       34  490234685  ad4  GPT  (234G)
>          34        128    1  freebsd-boot  (64K)
>         162   41943040    2  freebsd-ufs  [bootme]  (20G)
>    41943202    8388608    3  freebsd-swap  (4.0G)
>    50331810  209715200    4  freebsd-ufs  (100G)
>   260047010   41943040    5  freebsd-ufs  [bootonce,bootme]  (20G)
>   301990050  188244669       - free -  (90G)
> -----
>
> Install i386 kernel/world to ad4p5, successful reboot, get i386
> system. Next reboot (get amd64 system back):
> -----
> [~]bsam at alya% gpart show
> =>       34  490234685  ad4  GPT  (234G)
>          34        128    1  freebsd-boot  (64K)
>         162   41943040    2  freebsd-ufs  [bootme]  (20G)
>    41943202    8388608    3  freebsd-swap  (4.0G)
>    50331810  209715200    4  freebsd-ufs  (100G)
>   260047010   41943040    5  freebsd-ufs  (20G)
>   301990050  188244669       - free -  (90G)
> -----
>
> All seems to work fine.
>
>> Any comments or suggestions?
>
> Only one for now. With current default syslog configuration
> logging to local0.warning and local0.info goes nowhere.
> It will be good if those messages have traces at the
> default system.
>
>
> Thank you! That's really great.
>
> --
> WBR, Boris Samorodov (bsam)
> Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP
> FreeBSD Committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve
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