gpart has functionality to change the label of a (GPT) partition. This functionality works like it should, however, after a label change the /dev/gpt/ entries remain unchanged. glabel status output remains unchanged. The change only takes effect after a reboot. The device was not in use or otherwise 'locked', gpart list shows the new label, but otherwise it appears that the gpart modify -l command does not actually change the device entries, as is expected and desired. How-To-Repeat: [root@zfsguru ~]# gpart show ada0 => 34 12582845 ada0 GPT (6.0G) 34 512 1 freebsd-boot (256k) 546 1502 - free - (751k) 2048 12576768 2 freebsd-zfs (6G) 12578816 4063 - free - (2M) [root@zfsguru ~]# glabel status Name Status Components iso9660/ZFSGURU-LIVECD N/A cd0 gpt/testdisk1 N/A ada0p2 [root@zfsguru ~]# gpart list ada0 | grep label label: (null) label: testdisk1 [root@zfsguru ~]# gpart modify -i 1 -l "bootlabel" ada0 ada0p1 modified [root@zfsguru ~]# gpart list ada0 | grep label label: bootlabel label: testdisk1 [root@zfsguru ~]# glabel status Name Status Components iso9660/ZFSGURU-LIVECD N/A cd0 gpt/testdisk1 N/A ada0p2 [root@zfsguru ~]# ls -l /dev/gpt/ total 0 crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 76 Nov 20 13:19 testdisk1
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There is a (critical-severity (!)) duplicate of this bug report: bin/177080: gpart(8): /dev/gpt labels are not updated on ``gpart modify'' I'll note an additional discovery: mounting and unmounting the relabeled partition also causes /dev/gpt/* to be updated.
This still appears to be alive and kicking in 9.1p6, I've admittedly not = tested 9.2 or 10-CURRENT
This seems to still be an issue as of 10.1-RELEASE-p9 in May of 2015. Has this really been open since 2011? I have partition 1 named "test1" on da1. /dev/da1p1 is not mounted or in use in any way. # gpart list | grep label label: test1 # ll /dev/gpt crw-r----- 1 root operator 0x72 May 12 13:44 test1 I want to rename it to "disk1" # gpart modify -i 1 -l "disk1" da1 da1 modified # gpart list | grep label label: disk1 # ll /dev/gpt crw-r----- 1 root operator 0x72 May 12 13:44 test1 The partition label has been changed, but the contents of /dev/gpt doesn't update unto I reboot the system. I've found that if I *delete* the partition, then remake it with the new label, then /dev/gpt will show the correct labels. Even if the update of /dev/gpt isn't automatic, should there a command or something to manually trigger its update? On servers with a lot of drive bays, the slot order can be changed on startup. I haven't found a way to make "mfisyspdX" remain consistent (even with /boot/device.hints), to being able to easily manage labels can be a big deal.
The problem is that GEOM_LABEL class was appointed for handling GPT labels, but it isn't compatible to do this task. By design it handles labels from the same GEOM provider. GPT labels are stored in the partition table metadada on the different GEOM provider. And when you are changing the label, GEOM_LABEL doesn't know about this, because its provider wasn't spoiled. There are several solutions are possible: 1. Don't use GPT labels. 2. Assign GEOM_PART class for handling GPT labels and implement such functional. 3. Probably some dirty hack can notify GEOM_LABEL about changed GPT labels.
Hello, Same sort of issue with glabel (labels in /dev/label). // let's create a label. # glabel label /dev/gpt/mydisk mylabel # ls -l /dev/label/mylabel crw-r----- 1 root operator 0xa5 17 Aug 15:32 /dev/label/mylabel // let's put /dev/gpt/mydisk into /etc/ctl.conf to export it as an iSCSI target. # service ctld onestart Starting ctld. # ls -l /dev/label/mylabel ls: /dev/label/mylabel: No such file or directory // expected, because at this time the label is part of the exported iSCSI disk. # service ctld onestop Stopping ctld. # ls -l /dev/label/mylabel ls: /dev/label/mylabel: No such file or directory // not expected, label should be available at this time ! Issue is present in both 10.3 and 11-RC1. Is there any way to notify / update labels ? Many thanks ! Ben
I found a workaround for glabel. At the end of sbin/geom/class/label/geom_label.c, in label_dump, right after label_metadata_dump(&md); I added the following : int fd = g_open(name, 1); if (fd != -1) (void)g_close(fd); Then, 'glabel dump /dev/da*' will refresh labels. Trick also works with GPT, if you g_open(device, 1), labels will be refreshed. Perhaps we could add a glabel refresh option which would simply open/close devices in order to refresh their labels ?
https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/pull/84
Andrey, do you think we could have this committed to stable/11 so that it will be in 11.0-RELEASE ? Many thanks ! Ben
Created attachment 174723 [details] patch to add refresh method to glabel
I just have been told that GitHub PR is not the right method to submit a patch, so I followed the "How to Contribute" section of the FreeBSD Manual, and here is the patch.
*** Bug 177080 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 174918 [details] patch to handle gpart add/modify automatically (thx to Andrey)
So, 2 patches attached. The gpart label can be refreshed automatically (when they are added or modified), thanks to a patch by Andrey (many thanks Andrey !). There is however a case where glabel refresh is needed. Let's take this example (which is my use case) : # gpart create -s gpt da0 # gpart add -t freebsd-zfs -s 2048G -a 1m -l mygptlabel da0 # glabel label myglabellabel da0p1 # cat /etc/ctl.conf target iqn.2012-06.srv:t1 { lun 0 { path /dev/gpt/mygptlabel } } So as you can see /dev/gpt/mygptlabel is an iscsi target. And this target contains a generic label "myglabellabel". /dev/label/myglabellabel will show up on initiator side, perfect, this is what we want. However, when ctld is stopped, /dev/label/myglabellabel will not show up again on target. We then need to "glabel refresh" to make this label visible again. Same issue if for example we add /dev/gpt/mygptlabel to as zpool. /dev/label/myglabellabel will disappear because ZFS holds the disk, which is expected. However, when we remove the disks from the zpool, /dev/label/myglabellabel will not show up again. Here again we need to "glabel refresh" to make this label visible again. I then think that both patches may be required. The "glabel refresh" can handle all cases in a manual fashion. The gpart patch can only handle gpart add/modify automatically.
Any news regarding these 2 patches ? Could we think about merging them ? Thank you very much !
I'm taking it.
(In reply to Marcelo Araujo from comment #16) > I'm taking it. Please note, that the patch I proposed should be carefully tested before committing and merging. It might have some side effects that are hard to find.
Created attachment 177389 [details] patch to add refresh method to glabel Also update glabel man page.
Hi, Do you have some news regarding this please ? :) I would have been glad to see these 2 patches (at least the "patch to add refresh method to glabel") in 11.1. Many thanks again, Ben
(In reply to Ben RUBSON from comment #19) OK, sorry my delay with it. I'm making some tests with the patch and I got the following situation, I create and changed a label name: 1) Using glabel refresh and glabel list I get the correct new label. root@pipoca:/tmp # glabel list md1p1 Geom name: md1p1 Providers: 1. Name: label/lalala 2) Using gpart list I still get the old label. root@pipoca:/tmp # gpart list md1 Geom name: md1 modified: false state: OK fwheads: 32 fwsectors: 1 last: 20439 first: 40 entries: 152 scheme: GPT Providers: 1. Name: md1p1 Mediasize: 8388608 (8.0M) Sectorsize: 512 Stripesize: 0 Stripeoffset: 1048576 Mode: r0w0e0 rawuuid: 3c03eac6-0495-11e7-a52c-68f7285fdb52 rawtype: 516e7cba-6ecf-11d6-8ff8-00022d09712b label: test As we can see, with gpart list it shows the label named as 'test' and with glabel it shows as 'lalala'. Any thoughts?
(In reply to Marcelo Araujo from comment #20) OK, I guess I have missed Andrey's patch, I'm rebuilding my kernel. :)
Many thanks Marcelo for looking at this ! :) glabel refresh should work without Andrey patch. Andrey patch adds an automatic way to refresh gpart(-only) labels. Was your device opened while you were testing ? Here is an example : # gpart list da2 (...) 1. Name: da2p1 label: ben # gpart modify -i 1 -l newben da2 da2p1 modified # gpart list da2 (...) 1. Name: da2p1 label: newben # ll /dev/gpt/ total 0 crw-r----- 1 root operator 0xab 9 Mar 08:19 ben # glabel refresh /dev/da2 Metadata from /dev/da2 refreshed. # ll /dev/gpt/ total 0 crw-r----- 1 root operator 0xdb 9 Mar 08:22 newben
(In reply to Ben RUBSON from comment #22) OK, I did open a review for the 'refresh' patch, and I will take a second look on Andrey's patch later today. Both looks ok for me.
Perfect, many thx Marcelo ! Note that issue is exactly the same with labels in /dev/label. glabel refresh then allows to reveal the news labels.
A commit references this bug: Author: araujo Date: Sun Mar 12 04:15:56 UTC 2017 New revision: 315112 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/315112 Log: Add the capability to refresh the gpart(8) label without need a reboot. gpart(8) has functionality to change the label of an GPT partition. This functionality works like it should, however, after a label change the /dev/gpt/ entries remain unchanged. glabel(8) status output remains unchanged. The change only takes effect after a reboot. PR: 162690 Submitted by: sub.mesa@gmail, Ben RUBSON <ben.rubson@gmail.com>, ae Reviewed by: allanjude, bapt, bcr MFC after: 6 weeks. Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D9935 Changes: head/sbin/geom/class/label/geom_label.c head/sbin/geom/class/label/glabel.8 head/sys/geom/part/g_part.c
Thank you all!
Thank you very much Marcelo for your work on this !
A commit references this bug: Author: araujo Date: Wed May 17 05:21:04 UTC 2017 New revision: 318394 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/318394 Log: MFC r315112, r315196 r315112: Add the capability to refresh the gpart(8) label without need a reboot. gpart(8) has functionality to change the label of an GPT partition. This functionality works like it should, however, after a label change the /dev/gpt/ entries remain unchanged. glabel(8) status output remains unchanged. The change only takes effect after a reboot. PR: 162690 Submitted by: sub.mesa@gmail, Ben RUBSON <ben.rubson@gmail.com>, ae Reviewed by: allanjude, bapt, bcr Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D9935 r315196: After r315112 I broke the tests with eli, instead to pass 0, I should pass M_NOWAIT to g_media_changed() that will call g_post_event() with this flag. Reported by: lwhsu, ngie and ae Changes: _U stable/11/ stable/11/sbin/geom/class/label/geom_label.c stable/11/sbin/geom/class/label/glabel.8 stable/11/sys/geom/part/g_part.c