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Max Grossman
b0bc7a84d9 Illumos 4370, 4371
4370 avoid transmitting holes during zfs send
4371 DMU code clean up

Reviewed by: Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: George Wilson <george.wilson@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Christopher Siden <christopher.siden@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jeffpc@josefsipek.net>
Approved by: Garrett D'Amore <garrett@damore.org>a

References:
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/4370
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/4371
  https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commit/43466aa

Ported by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #2529
2014-07-28 14:29:58 -07:00
Matthew Ahrens
e8b96c6007 Illumos #4045 write throttle & i/o scheduler performance work
4045 zfs write throttle & i/o scheduler performance work

1. The ZFS i/o scheduler (vdev_queue.c) now divides i/os into 5 classes: sync
read, sync write, async read, async write, and scrub/resilver.  The scheduler
issues a number of concurrent i/os from each class to the device.  Once a class
has been selected, an i/o is selected from this class using either an elevator
algorithem (async, scrub classes) or FIFO (sync classes).  The number of
concurrent async write i/os is tuned dynamically based on i/o load, to achieve
good sync i/o latency when there is not a high load of writes, and good write
throughput when there is.  See the block comment in vdev_queue.c (reproduced
below) for more details.

2. The write throttle (dsl_pool_tempreserve_space() and
txg_constrain_throughput()) is rewritten to produce much more consistent delays
when under constant load.  The new write throttle is based on the amount of
dirty data, rather than guesses about future performance of the system.  When
there is a lot of dirty data, each transaction (e.g. write() syscall) will be
delayed by the same small amount.  This eliminates the "brick wall of wait"
that the old write throttle could hit, causing all transactions to wait several
seconds until the next txg opens.  One of the keys to the new write throttle is
decrementing the amount of dirty data as i/o completes, rather than at the end
of spa_sync().  Note that the write throttle is only applied once the i/o
scheduler is issuing the maximum number of outstanding async writes.  See the
block comments in dsl_pool.c and above dmu_tx_delay() (reproduced below) for
more details.

This diff has several other effects, including:

 * the commonly-tuned global variable zfs_vdev_max_pending has been removed;
use per-class zfs_vdev_*_max_active values or zfs_vdev_max_active instead.

 * the size of each txg (meaning the amount of dirty data written, and thus the
time it takes to write out) is now controlled differently.  There is no longer
an explicit time goal; the primary determinant is amount of dirty data.
Systems that are under light or medium load will now often see that a txg is
always syncing, but the impact to performance (e.g. read latency) is minimal.
Tune zfs_dirty_data_max and zfs_dirty_data_sync to control this.

 * zio_taskq_batch_pct = 75 -- Only use 75% of all CPUs for compression,
checksum, etc.  This improves latency by not allowing these CPU-intensive tasks
to consume all CPU (on machines with at least 4 CPU's; the percentage is
rounded up).

--matt

APPENDIX: problems with the current i/o scheduler

The current ZFS i/o scheduler (vdev_queue.c) is deadline based.  The problem
with this is that if there are always i/os pending, then certain classes of
i/os can see very long delays.

For example, if there are always synchronous reads outstanding, then no async
writes will be serviced until they become "past due".  One symptom of this
situation is that each pass of the txg sync takes at least several seconds
(typically 3 seconds).

If many i/os become "past due" (their deadline is in the past), then we must
service all of these overdue i/os before any new i/os.  This happens when we
enqueue a batch of async writes for the txg sync, with deadlines 2.5 seconds in
the future.  If we can't complete all the i/os in 2.5 seconds (e.g. because
there were always reads pending), then these i/os will become past due.  Now we
must service all the "async" writes (which could be hundreds of megabytes)
before we service any reads, introducing considerable latency to synchronous
i/os (reads or ZIL writes).

Notes on porting to ZFS on Linux:

- zio_t gained new members io_physdone and io_phys_children.  Because
  object caches in the Linux port call the constructor only once at
  allocation time, objects may contain residual data when retrieved
  from the cache. Therefore zio_create() was updated to zero out the two
  new fields.

- vdev_mirror_pending() relied on the depth of the per-vdev pending queue
  (vq->vq_pending_tree) to select the least-busy leaf vdev to read from.
  This tree has been replaced by vq->vq_active_tree which is now used
  for the same purpose.

- vdev_queue_init() used the value of zfs_vdev_max_pending to determine
  the number of vdev I/O buffers to pre-allocate.  That global no longer
  exists, so we instead use the sum of the *_max_active values for each of
  the five I/O classes described above.

- The Illumos implementation of dmu_tx_delay() delays a transaction by
  sleeping in condition variable embedded in the thread
  (curthread->t_delay_cv).  We do not have an equivalent CV to use in
  Linux, so this change replaced the delay logic with a wrapper called
  zfs_sleep_until(). This wrapper could be adopted upstream and in other
  downstream ports to abstract away operating system-specific delay logic.

- These tunables are added as module parameters, and descriptions added
  to the zfs-module-parameters.5 man page.

  spa_asize_inflation
  zfs_deadman_synctime_ms
  zfs_vdev_max_active
  zfs_vdev_async_write_active_min_dirty_percent
  zfs_vdev_async_write_active_max_dirty_percent
  zfs_vdev_async_read_max_active
  zfs_vdev_async_read_min_active
  zfs_vdev_async_write_max_active
  zfs_vdev_async_write_min_active
  zfs_vdev_scrub_max_active
  zfs_vdev_scrub_min_active
  zfs_vdev_sync_read_max_active
  zfs_vdev_sync_read_min_active
  zfs_vdev_sync_write_max_active
  zfs_vdev_sync_write_min_active
  zfs_dirty_data_max_percent
  zfs_delay_min_dirty_percent
  zfs_dirty_data_max_max_percent
  zfs_dirty_data_max
  zfs_dirty_data_max_max
  zfs_dirty_data_sync
  zfs_delay_scale

  The latter four have type unsigned long, whereas they are uint64_t in
  Illumos.  This accommodates Linux's module_param() supported types, but
  means they may overflow on 32-bit architectures.

  The values zfs_dirty_data_max and zfs_dirty_data_max_max are the most
  likely to overflow on 32-bit systems, since they express physical RAM
  sizes in bytes.  In fact, Illumos initializes zfs_dirty_data_max_max to
  2^32 which does overflow. To resolve that, this port instead initializes
  it in arc_init() to 25% of physical RAM, and adds the tunable
  zfs_dirty_data_max_max_percent to override that percentage.  While this
  solution doesn't completely avoid the overflow issue, it should be a
  reasonable default for most systems, and the minority of affected
  systems can work around the issue by overriding the defaults.

- Fixed reversed logic in comment above zfs_delay_scale declaration.

- Clarified comments in vdev_queue.c regarding when per-queue minimums take
  effect.

- Replaced dmu_tx_write_limit in the dmu_tx kstat file
  with dmu_tx_dirty_delay and dmu_tx_dirty_over_max.  The first counts
  how many times a transaction has been delayed because the pool dirty
  data has exceeded zfs_delay_min_dirty_percent.  The latter counts how
  many times the pool dirty data has exceeded zfs_dirty_data_max (which
  we expect to never happen).

- The original patch would have regressed the bug fixed in
  zfsonlinux/zfs@c418410, which prevented users from setting the
  zfs_vdev_aggregation_limit tuning larger than SPA_MAXBLOCKSIZE.
  A similar fix is added to vdev_queue_aggregate().

- In vdev_queue_io_to_issue(), dynamically allocate 'zio_t search' on the
  heap instead of the stack.  In Linux we can't afford such large
  structures on the stack.

Reviewed by: George Wilson <george.wilson@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Adam Leventhal <ahl@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Christopher Siden <christopher.siden@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Ned Bass <bass6@llnl.gov>
Reviewed by: Brendan Gregg <brendan.gregg@joyent.com>
Approved by: Robert Mustacchi <rm@joyent.com>

References:
  http://www.illumos.org/issues/4045
  illumos/illumos-gate@69962b5647

Ported-by: Ned Bass <bass6@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #1913
2013-12-06 09:32:43 -08:00
Matthew Ahrens
b663a23d36 Illumos #4047
4047 panic from dbuf_free_range() from dmu_free_object() while
     doing zfs receive
Reviewed by: Adam Leventhal <ahl@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: George Wilson <george.wilson@delphix.com>
Approved by: Dan McDonald <danmcd@nexenta.com>

References:
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/4047
  illumos/illumos-gate@713d6c2088

Ported-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #1775

Porting notes:

1. The exported symbol dmu_free_object() was renamed to
   dmu_free_long_object() in Illumos.
2013-11-05 12:23:35 -08:00
George Wilson
03c6040bee Illumos #3236
3236 zio nop-write
Reviewed by: Matt Ahrens <matthew.ahrens@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Adam Leventhal <ahl@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Christopher Siden <chris.siden@delphix.com>
Approved by: Garrett D'Amore <garrett@damore.org>

References:
  illumos/illumos-gate@80901aea8e
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/3236

Porting Notes

1. This patch is being merged dispite an increased instance of
   https://www.illumos.org/issues/3113 being triggered by ztest.

Ported-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #1489
2013-11-05 12:14:21 -08:00
Will Andrews
e49f1e20a0 Illumos #3741
3741 zfs needs better comments
Reviewed by: Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Eric Schrock <eric.schrock@delphix.com>
Approved by: Christopher Siden <christopher.siden@delphix.com>

References:
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/3741
  illumos/illumos-gate@3e30c24aee

Ported-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #1775
2013-11-04 10:55:25 -08:00
Richard Yao
632a242e83 Add missing copyright notices from Illumos
This resolves merge conflicts when merging Illumos #3588 and Illumos #4047.

Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #1775
2013-10-29 15:06:18 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
e0b0ca983d Add visibility in to cached dbufs
Currently there is no mechanism to inspect which dbufs are being
cached by the system.  There are some coarse counters in arcstats
by they only give a rough idea of what's being cached.  This patch
aims to improve the current situation by adding a new dbufs kstat.

When read this new kstat will walk all cached dbufs linked in to
the dbuf_hash.  For each dbuf it will dump detailed information
about the buffer.  It will also dump additional information about
the referenced arc buffer and its related dnode.  This provides a
more complete view in to exactly what is being cached.

With this generic infrastructure in place utilities can be written
to post-process the data to understand exactly how the caching is
working.  For example, the data could be processed to show a list
of all cached dnodes and how much space they're consuming.  Or a
similar list could be generated based on dnode type.  Many other
ways to interpret the data exist based on what kinds of questions
you're trying to answer.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Prakash Surya <surya1@llnl.gov>
2013-10-25 13:59:40 -07:00
Matthew Ahrens
13fe019870 Illumos #3464
3464 zfs synctask code needs restructuring
Reviewed by: Dan Kimmel <dan.kimmel@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Adam Leventhal <ahl@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: George Wilson <george.wilson@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Christopher Siden <christopher.siden@delphix.com>
Approved by: Garrett D'Amore <garrett@damore.org>

References:
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/3464
  illumos/illumos-gate@3b2aab1880

Ported-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #1495
2013-09-04 16:01:24 -07:00
Matthew Ahrens
6f1ffb0665 Illumos #2882, #2883, #2900
2882 implement libzfs_core
2883 changing "canmount" property to "on" should not always remount dataset
2900 "zfs snapshot" should be able to create multiple, arbitrary snapshots at once

Reviewed by: George Wilson <george.wilson@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Chris Siden <christopher.siden@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Garrett D'Amore <garrett@damore.org>
Reviewed by: Bill Pijewski <wdp@joyent.com>
Reviewed by: Dan Kruchinin <dan.kruchinin@gmail.com>
Approved by: Eric Schrock <Eric.Schrock@delphix.com>

References:
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/2882
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/2883
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/2900
  illumos/illumos-gate@4445fffbbb

Ported-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #1293

Porting notes:

WARNING: This patch changes the user/kernel ABI.  That means that
the zfs/zpool utilities built from master are NOT compatible with
the 0.6.2 kernel modules.  Ensure you load the matching kernel
modules from master after updating the utilities.  Otherwise the
zfs/zpool commands will be unable to interact with your pool and
you will see errors similar to the following:

  $ zpool list
  failed to read pool configuration: bad address
  no pools available

  $ zfs list
  no datasets available

Add zvol minor device creation to the new zfs_snapshot_nvl function.

Remove the logging of the "release" operation in
dsl_dataset_user_release_sync().  The logging caused a null dereference
because ds->ds_dir is zeroed in dsl_dataset_destroy_sync() and the
logging functions try to get the ds name via the dsl_dataset_name()
function. I've got no idea why this particular code would have worked
in Illumos.  This code has subsequently been completely reworked in
Illumos commit 3b2aab1 (3464 zfs synctask code needs restructuring).

Squash some "may be used uninitialized" warning/erorrs.

Fix some printf format warnings for %lld and %llu.

Apply a few spa_writeable() changes that were made to Illumos in
illumos/illumos-gate.git@cd1c8b8 as part of the 3112, 3113, 3114 and
3115 fixes.

Add a missing call to fnvlist_free(nvl) in log_internal() that was added
in Illumos to fix issue 3085 but couldn't be ported to ZoL at the time
(zfsonlinux/zfs@9e11c73) because it depended on future work.
2013-09-04 15:49:00 -07:00
Saso Kiselkov
4e59f47511 Illumos #3964 L2ARC should always compress metadata buffers
3964 L2ARC should always compress metadata buffers
Reviewed by: Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>

References:
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/3964

Ported-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #1379
2013-08-08 13:37:00 -07:00
Jan Engelhardt
4e95cc99b0 build: resolve orthographic and other grammatical errors
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2013-04-02 10:44:52 -07:00
Richard Yao
b01615d5ac Constify structures containing function pointers
The PaX team modified the kernel's modpost to report writeable function
pointers as section mismatches because they are potential exploit
targets. We could ignore the warnings, but their presence can obscure
actual issues. Proper const correctness can also catch programming
mistakes.

Building the kernel modules against a PaX/GrSecurity patched Linux 3.4.2
kernel reports 133 section mismatches prior to this patch. This patch
eliminates 130 of them. The quantity of writeable function pointers
eliminated by constifying each structure is as follows:

vdev_opts_t             52
zil_replay_func_t       24
zio_compress_info_t     24
zio_checksum_info_t     9
space_map_ops_t         7
arc_byteswap_func_t     5

The remaining 3 writeable function pointers cannot be addressed by this
patch. 2 of them are in zpl_fs_type. The kernel's sget function requires
that this be non-const. The final writeable function pointer is created
by SPL_SHRINKER_DECLARE. The kernel's set_shrinker() and
remove_shrinker() functions also require that this be non-const.

Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@cs.stonybrook.edu>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #1300
2013-03-04 08:49:32 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf
6772fb679a Use dsl_dataset_snap_lookup()
Retire the dmu_snapshot_id() function which was introduced in the
initial .zfs control directory implementation.  There is already
an existing dsl_dataset_snap_lookup() which does exactly what we
need, and the dmu_snapshot_id() function as implemented is racy.

https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/1215#issuecomment-12579879

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #1238
2013-01-25 15:07:40 -08:00
Matthew Ahrens
753c38392d Illumos #3104: eliminate empty bpobjs
3104 eliminate empty bpobjs
Reviewed by: George Wilson <george.wilson@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Adam Leventhal <ahl@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Christopher Siden <chris.siden@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Garrett D'Amore <garrett@damore.org>
Approved by: Eric Schrock <eric.schrock@delphix.com>

References:
  illumos/illumos-gate@f174573681
  illumos changeset: 13782:8f78aae28a63
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/3104

Ported-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2013-01-08 10:35:43 -08:00
Christopher Siden
9ae529ec5d Illumos #2619 and #2747
2619 asynchronous destruction of ZFS file systems
2747 SPA versioning with zfs feature flags
Reviewed by: Matt Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: George Wilson <gwilson@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Richard Lowe <richlowe@richlowe.net>
Reviewed by: Dan Kruchinin <dan.kruchinin@gmail.com>
Approved by: Eric Schrock <Eric.Schrock@delphix.com>

References:
  illumos/illumos-gate@53089ab7c8
  illumos/illumos-gate@ad135b5d64
  illumos changeset: 13700:2889e2596bd6
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/2619
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/2747

NOTE: The grub specific changes were not ported.  This change
must be made to the Linux grub packages.

Ported-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2013-01-08 10:35:35 -08:00
Bill Pijewski
37abac6d55 Illumos #2703: add mechanism to report ZFS send progress
Reviewed by: Matt Ahrens <matt@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Robert Mustacchi <rm@joyent.com>
Reviewed by: Richard Lowe <richlowe@richlowe.net>
Approved by: Eric Schrock <Eric.Schrock@delphix.com>

References:
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/2703

Ported by: Martin Matuska <martin@matuska.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-09-19 13:39:06 -07:00
Matthew Ahrens
330d06f90d Illumos #1644, #1645, #1646, #1647, #1708
1644 add ZFS "clones" property
1645 add ZFS "written" and "written@..." properties
1646 "zfs send" should estimate size of stream
1647 "zfs destroy" should determine space reclaimed by
     destroying multiple snapshots
1708 adjust size of zpool history data

References:
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/1644
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/1645
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/1646
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/1647
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/1708

This commit modifies the user to kernel space ioctl ABI.  Extra
care should be taken when updating to ensure both the kernel
modules and utilities are updated.  This change has reordered
all of the new ioctl()s to the end of the list.  This should
help minimize this issue in the future.

Reviewed by: Richard Lowe <richlowe@richlowe.net>
Reviewed by: George Wilson <gwilson@zfsmail.com>
Reviewed by: Albert Lee <trisk@opensolaris.org>
Approved by: Garrett D'Amore <garret@nexenta.com>

Ported by: Martin Matuska <martin@matuska.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #826
Closes #664
2012-07-31 09:25:30 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
ebe7e575ea Add .zfs control directory
Add support for the .zfs control directory.  This was accomplished
by leveraging as much of the existing ZFS infrastructure as posible
and updating it for Linux as required.  The bulk of the core
functionality is now all there with the following limitations.

*) The .zfs/snapshot directory automount support requires a 2.6.37
   or newer kernel.  The exception is RHEL6.2 which has backported
   the d_automount patches.

*) Creating/destroying/renaming snapshots with mkdir/rmdir/mv
   in the .zfs/snapshot directory works as expected.  However,
   this functionality is only available to root until zfs
   delegations are finished.

      * mkdir - create a snapshot
      * rmdir - destroy a snapshot
      * mv    - rename a snapshot

The following issues are known defeciences, but we expect them to
be addressed by future commits.

*) Add automount support for kernels older the 2.6.37.  This should
   be possible using follow_link() which is what Linux did before.

*) Accessing the .zfs/snapshot directory via NFS is not yet possible.
   The majority of the ground work for this is complete.  However,
   finishing this work will require resolving some lingering
   integration issues with the Linux NFS kernel server.

*) The .zfs/shares directory exists but no futher smb functionality
   has yet been implemented.

Contributions-by: Rohan Puri <rohan.puri15@gmail.com>
Contributiobs-by: Andrew Barnes <barnes333@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #173
2012-03-22 13:03:47 -07:00
Alexander Stetsenko
8d35c1499d Illumos #755: dmu_recv_stream builds incomplete guid_to_ds_map
An incomplete guid_to_ds_map would cause restore_write_byref() to fail
while receiving a de-duplicated backup stream.

Reviewed by: Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Garrett D`Amore <garrett@nexenta.com>
Reviewed by: Gordon Ross <gwr@nexenta.com>
Approved by: Gordon Ross <gwr@nexenta.com>

References to Illumos issue and patch:
- https://www.illumos.org/issues/755
- https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commit/ec5cf9d53a

Signed-off-by: Gunnar Beutner <gunnar@beutner.name>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #372
2011-10-18 11:18:14 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
61e909608d Linux 2.6.x compat, blkdev_compat.h
For legacy reasons the zvol.c and vdev_disk.c Linux compatibility
code ended up in sys/blkdev.h and sys/vdev_disk.h headers.  While
there are worse places for this code to live it should be in a
linux/blkdev_compat.h header.  This change moves this block device
Linux compatibility code in to the linux/blkdev_compat.h header
and updates all the correct #include locations.  This is not a
functional change or bug fix, it is just code cleanup.
2011-02-23 12:29:38 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf
6149f4c45f Remove dmu_write_pages() support
For the moment we do not use dmu_write_pages() to write pages
directly in to a dmu object.  It may be required at some point
in the future, but for now is simplest and cleanest to drop it.
It can be easily readded if/when needed.
2011-02-10 09:27:21 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf
872e8d2697 Add initial rw_uio functions to the dmu
These functions were dropped originally because I felt they would
need to be rewritten anyway to avoid using uios.  However, this
patch readds then with they dea they can just be reworked and
the uio bits dropped.
2011-02-04 16:14:34 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf
6283f55ea1 Support custom build directories and move includes
One of the neat tricks an autoconf style project is capable of
is allow configurion/building in a directory other than the
source directory.  The major advantage to this is that you can
build the project various different ways while making changes
in a single source tree.

For example, this project is designed to work on various different
Linux distributions each of which work slightly differently.  This
means that changes need to verified on each of those supported
distributions perferably before the change is committed to the
public git repo.

Using nfs and custom build directories makes this much easier.
I now have a single source tree in nfs mounted on several different
systems each running a supported distribution.  When I make a
change to the source base I suspect may break things I can
concurrently build from the same source on all the systems each
in their own subdirectory.

wget -c http://github.com/downloads/behlendorf/zfs/zfs-x.y.z.tar.gz
tar -xzf zfs-x.y.z.tar.gz
cd zfs-x-y-z

------------------------- run concurrently ----------------------
<ubuntu system>  <fedora system>  <debian system>  <rhel6 system>
mkdir ubuntu     mkdir fedora     mkdir debian     mkdir rhel6
cd ubuntu        cd fedora        cd debian        cd rhel6
../configure     ../configure     ../configure     ../configure
make             make             make             make
make check       make check       make check       make check

This change also moves many of the include headers from individual
incude/sys directories under the modules directory in to a single
top level include directory.  This has the advantage of making
the build rules cleaner and logically it makes a bit more sense.
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