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Jan Musial aaedfb35dd Change startup procedure
Current startup procedure works on an assumption that we will
deal with asynchronously appearing devices in asynchronous way
(udev rules) and synchronous events in the system (systemd units)
won't interfere. If we would break anything (mounts) we would just
take those units and restart them. This tactic was working as long
as resetting systemd units took reasonable time.

As hackish as it sounds it worked in all systems that the software
has been validated on. Unfortunately it stopped working because
of *.mount units taking MUCH longer time to restart even on
mainstream OSes, so it's time to change.

This change implements open-cas systemd service which will wait
synchronously with systemd bootup process for all required Open CAS
devices to start. If they don't we fail the boot process just as
failing mounts would. We also make sure that this process takes place
before any mounts (aside from root FS and other critical FS's) are
even attempted. Now opencas-mount-utility can be discarded.

To override this behaviour on per-core basis you can specify
lazy_startup=true option in opencas.conf.

Signed-off-by: Jan Musial <jan.musial@intel.com>
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Open CAS Linux

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Open CAS accelerates Linux applications by caching active (hot) data to a local flash device inside servers. Open CAS implements caching at the server level, utilizing local high-performance flash media as the cache drive media inside the application server as close as possible to the CPU, thus reducing storage latency as much as possible. The Open Cache Acceleration Software installs into the GNU/Linux operating system itself, as a kernel module. The nature of the integration provides a cache solution that is transparent to users and applications, and your existing storage infrastructure. No storage migration effort or application changes are required.

Open CAS is distributed on BSD-3-Clause license (see https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause for full license texts).

Open CAS uses Safe string library (safeclib) that is MIT licensed.

Installation

To download latest Open CAS Linux release run following commands:

wget https://github.com/Open-CAS/open-cas-linux/releases/download/v19.9/open-cas-linux-v19.9.tar.gz
tar -xf open-cas-linux-v19.9.tar.gz
cd open-cas-linux-v19.9

Alternatively, if you want recent development (unstable) version, you can clone GitHub repository:

git clone https://github.com/Open-CAS/open-cas-linux
cd open-cas-linux
git submodule update --init

To configure, build and install Open CAS Linux run following commands:

./configure
make
make install

The ./configure performs check for dependencies, so if some of them are missing, command will print their names in output. After installing missing dependencies you need to run ./configure once again - this time it should succeed.

Getting Started

To quickly deploy Open CAS Linux in your system please follow the instructions available here.

Documentation

The complete documentation for Open CAS Linux is available in the Open CAS Linux Administration Guide.

Running Tests

Before running tests make sure you have a platform with at least 2 disks (one for cache and one for core). Be careful as these devices will be most likely overwritten with random data during tests. Tests can be either executed locally or on a remote platform (via ssh) specified in the dut_config.

  1. Go to test directory cd test/functional.
  2. Install dependencies with command pip3 install -r test-framework/requirements.txt.
  3. Create DUT config. See example here.
    a) Set disks params. You need at least two disks, of which at least one is an SSD drive.
    b) For remote execution uncomment and set the ip, user and password fields.
    c) For local execution just leave these fields commented.
  4. Run tests using command pytest-3 --dut-config=<CONFIG> where <CONFIG> is path to your config file, for example pytest-3 --dut-config="config/dut_config.yml".

Security

To report a potential security vulnerability please follow the instructions here.