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mckusick
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V 27
2013-03-23T21:56:19.633657Z
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V 1837
MFC of 246876 and 246877

MFC: 246876:

Add barrier write capability to the VFS buffer interface. A barrier
write is a disk write request that tells the disk that the buffer
being written must be committed to the media along with any writes
that preceeded it before any future blocks may be written to the drive.

Barrier writes are provided by adding the functions bbarrierwrite
(bwrite with barrier) and babarrierwrite (bawrite with barrier).

Following a bbarrierwrite the client knows that the requested buffer
is on the media. It does not ensure that buffers written before that
buffer are on the media. It only ensure that buffers written before
that buffer will get to the media before any buffers written after
that buffer. A flush command must be sent to the disk to ensure that
all earlier written buffers are on the media.

Reviewed by: kib
Tested by:   Peter Holm

MFC 246877:

The UFS2 filesystem allocates new blocks of inodes as they are needed.
When a cylinder group runs short of inodes, a new block for inodes is
allocated, zero'ed, and written to the disk. The zero'ed inodes must
be on the disk before the cylinder group can be updated to claim them.
If the cylinder group claiming the new inodes were written before the
zero'ed block of inodes, the system could crash with the filesystem in
an unrecoverable state.

Rather than adding a soft updates dependency to ensure that the new
inode block is written before it is claimed by the cylinder group
map, we just do a barrier write of the zero'ed inode block to ensure
that it will get written before the updated cylinder group map can
be written. This change should only slow down bulk loading of newly
created filesystems since that is the primary time that new inode
blocks need to be created.

Reported by: Robert Watson
Reviewed by: kib
Tested by:   Peter Holm

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