DASD
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- DASD device driver
- S/390's disk devices (DASDs) are managed by Linux via the DASD device
- driver. It is valid for all types of DASDs and represents them to
- Linux as block devices, namely "dd". Currently the DASD driver uses a
- single major number (254) and 4 minor numbers per volume (1 for the
- physical volume and 3 for partitions). With respect to partitions see
- below. Thus you may have up to 64 DASD devices in your system.
- The kernel parameter 'dasd=from-to,...' may be issued arbitrary times
- in the kernel's parameter line or not at all. The 'from' and 'to'
- parameters are to be given in hexadecimal notation without a leading
- 0x.
- If you supply kernel parameters the different instances are processed
- in order of appearance and a minor number is reserved for any device
- covered by the supplied range up to 64 volumes. Additional DASDs are
- ignored. If you do not supply the 'dasd=' kernel parameter at all, the
- DASD driver registers all supported DASDs of your system to a minor
- number in ascending order of the subchannel number.
- The driver currently supports ECKD-devices and there are stubs for
- support of the FBA and CKD architectures. For the FBA architecture
- only some smart data structures are missing to make the support
- complete.
- We performed our testing on 3380 and 3390 type disks of different
- sizes, under VM and on the bare hardware (LPAR), using internal disks
- of the multiprise as well as a RAMAC virtual array. Disks exported by
- an Enterprise Storage Server (Seascape) should work fine as well.
- We currently implement one partition per volume, which is the whole
- volume, skipping the first blocks up to the volume label. These are
- reserved for IPL records and IBM's volume label to assure
- accessibility of the DASD from other OSs. In a later stage we will
- provide support of partitions, maybe VTOC oriented or using a kind of
- partition table in the label record.
- USAGE
- -Low-level format (?CKD only)
- For using an ECKD-DASD as a Linux harddisk you have to low-level
- format the tracks by issuing the BLKDASDFORMAT-ioctl on that
- device. This will erase any data on that volume including IBM volume
- labels, VTOCs etc. The ioctl may take a 'struct format_data *' or
- 'NULL' as an argument.
- typedef struct {
- int start_unit;
- int stop_unit;
- int blksize;
- } format_data_t;
- When a NULL argument is passed to the BLKDASDFORMAT ioctl the whole
- disk is formatted to a blocksize of 1024 bytes. Otherwise start_unit
- and stop_unit are the first and last track to be formatted. If
- stop_unit is -1 it implies that the DASD is formatted from start_unit
- up to the last track. blksize can be any power of two between 512 and
- 4096. We recommend no blksize lower than 1024 because the ext2fs uses
- 1kB blocks anyway and you gain approx. 50% of capacity increasing your
- blksize from 512 byte to 1kB.
- -Make a filesystem
- Then you can mk??fs the filesystem of your choice on that volume or
- partition. For reasons of sanity you should build your filesystem on
- the partition /dev/dd?1 instead of the whole volume. You only lose 3kB
- but may be sure that you can reuse your data after introduction of a
- real partition table.
- BUGS:
- - Performance sometimes is rather low because we don't fully exploit clustering
- TODO-List:
- - Add IBM'S Disk layout to genhd
- - Enhance driver to use more than one major number
- - Enable usage as a module
- - Support Cache fast write and DASD fast write (ECKD)