The V4 review's open edge: a storage driver that crashes while its device
stays in the tree left fat wedged on a dead channel — device-presence
polling (a device-manager enumerate) still reported the device present,
so nothing reaped it. pollTick now also probes channelAlive(dev), a
geometry() on the block channel that fails fast on the dead endpoint; a
present device with a dead channel is reaped like a pull, and the adopt
loop re-adopts it on the restarted driver's fresh channel — the rebuild.
The manager's own liveness probe makes fat self-detection unnecessary:
it rebuilds regardless of the wedged filesystem's state.
The drill: the device manager gains a test-storage-restart mode that
kills usb-storage once, ~2s after its hello (post-mount); a new
volume-driver-restart kernel case boots a manual tree with it, and the
QEMU case asserts a SECOND mount of the same id-path after the reap —
the rebuild. A pre-S5 manager, checking only device presence, never
reaps, so the second mount never appears. The manually-spawned volume
manager needed kernel-supervisor protocol grants (bind its name, open
the device manager), as the other manual-tree services already have.
Full suite 133/133.
Daniel Samson
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