features/bit-rot: filesystem scrubber

Scrubber performs signature verification for objects that were
signed by signer. This is done by recalculating the signature
(using the hash algorithm the object was signed with) and
verifying it aginst the objects persisted signature. Since the
object could be undergoing IO opretaion at the time of hash
calculation, the signature may not match objects persisted
signature. Bitrot stub provides additional information about
the stalesness of an objects signature (determinted by it's
versioning mechanism). This additional bit of information is
used by scrubber to determine the staleness of the signature,
and in such cases the object is skipped verification (although
signature staleness is performed twice: once before initiation
of hash calculation and another after it (an object could be
modified after staleness checks).

The implmentation is a part of the bitrot xlator (signer) which
acts as a signer or scrubber based on a translator option. As
of now the scrub process is ever running (but has some form of
weak throttling mechanism during filesystem scan). Going forward,
there needs to be some form of scrub scheduling and IO throttling
(during hash calculation) tunables (via CLI).

Change-Id: I665ce90208f6074b98c5a1dd841ce776627cc6f9
BUG: 1170075
Original-Author: Raghavendra Bhat <rabhat@redhat.com>
Original-Author: Venky Shankar <vshankar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Venky Shankar <vshankar@redhat.com>
Reviewed-on: http://review.gluster.org/9914
Tested-by: Vijay Bellur <vbellur@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vijay Bellur <vbellur@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/xlators/features/bit-rot/src/bitd/bit-rot-scrub.h b/xlators/features/bit-rot/src/bitd/bit-rot-scrub.h
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..daec9ad8196
--- /dev/null
+++ b/xlators/features/bit-rot/src/bitd/bit-rot-scrub.h
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+/*
+   Copyright (c) 2015 Red Hat, Inc. <http://www.redhat.com>
+   This file is part of GlusterFS.
+
+   This file is licensed to you under your choice of the GNU Lesser
+   General Public License, version 3 or any later version (LGPLv3 or
+   later), or the GNU General Public License, version 2 (GPLv2), in all
+   cases as published by the Free Software Foundation.
+*/
+
+#ifndef __BIT_ROT__SCRUB_H__
+#define __BIT_ROT_SCRUB_H__
+
+void *br_scrubber (void *);
+
+#endif /* __BIT_ROT_SCRUB_H__ */