DM device-mapper driver status

[Adam Hamsik <haaaad%gmail.com@localhost>]

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Hi,

In this year Summer of Code I'm working on NetBSD support for LVM.  
With help of my
mentor (@blymn) I have selected these tasks to do:

1) rewrite ioctl interface to proplib

2) get lvm2tools and libdevmapper working in NetBSD.

Before GSOC I have written NetBSD version of device-mapper driver.  
This driver is used
to create virtual block devices (Logical volumes). This driver use old  
ioctl interface.
Last working version is tagged in my monotone repository* with this  
tag NetBSD dm 0.1.

During community bonding period I worked on libdevmapper and  
lvm2tools. I have rewritten
some parts of lvm2tools and libdevmapper to properly work without  
procfs and usage of raw
devices. Last working version of lvm2tools were tagged in my repo as  
NetBSD LVM2.2.02.28.

I tried to upgrade LVM2tools to newer version (current version is  
2.02.36) but I found
that best option is write all necessary parts on my in database  
version and later port
them to current LVM2tools.

Now I'm working on new proplib interface for dm-kernel driver and  
libdevmapper. Work is
done in

  org.netbsd.haad.dm.dmlkm-proplib
  org.netbsd.haad.dm.libdm-proplib

Proplib version of libdevmapper uses 3 new NetBSD specific files:

 include/netbsd/netbsd_dm.h
 lib/ioctl/libdm-nbsd-iface.c
 lib/ioctl/libdm_netbsd.c

lib/ioctl files create proplib dictionary from libdevmapper
dm_ioctl structure (which is passed to kernel in linux
version of this protocol). This dictionary is later send to
kernel. After successful ioctl call is proplib dictionary parsed
to dm_ioctl struct. This way I keep netbsd changes in 2 files and
we can upgrade libdevmapper library to new versions easily.

I have a blog at [1] I keep it updated so if you are interested in
this SOC project try to look there.

*http://147.175.97.81:8080/dm/tags viewmtn or mtn://147.175.97.81

[1] http://haadbsd.blogspot.com/

Regards

Adam.

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