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Block device on top of Lwt_unix

include Mirage_block_lwt.S

type page_aligned_buffer = Cstruct.t

The type for page-aligned memory buffers.

type error = private [>

| Mirage_device.error

]

The type for block errors.

val pp_error : error Fmt.t

pp_error is the pretty-printer for errors.

type write_error = private [>

| Mirage_device.error
| `Is_read_only

]

The type for write errors.

val pp_write_error : write_error Fmt.t

pp_write_error is the pretty-printer for write errors.

include Mirage_device.S with type 'a io = 'a Lwt.t

type 'a io = 'a Lwt.t

The type for potentially blocking I/O operation

type t

The type representing the internal state of the device

val disconnect : t -> unit io

Disconnect from the device. While this might take some time to complete, it can never result in an error.

val get_info : t -> Mirage_block.info io

Query the characteristics of a specific block device

val read : 
  t ->
  int64 ->
  page_aligned_buffer list ->
  (unit, error) Stdlib.result io

read device sector_start buffers reads data starting at sector_start from the block device into buffers. Ok () means the buffers have been filled. Error _ indicates an I/O error has happened and some of the buffers may not be filled. Each of elements in the list buffers must be a whole number of sectors in length. The list of buffers can be of any length.

val write : 
  t ->
  int64 ->
  page_aligned_buffer list ->
  (unit, write_error) Stdlib.result io

write device sector_start buffers writes data from buffers onto the block device starting at sector_start. Ok () means the contents of the buffers have been written. Error _ indicates a partial failure in which some of the writes may not have happened.

Once submitted, it is not possible to cancel a request and there is no timeout.

The operation may fail with:

`Unimplemented: the operation has not been implemented, no data has been written.
`Is_read_only: the device is read-only, no data has been written.
`Disconnected: the device has been disconnected at application request, an unknown amount of data has been written.

Each of buffers must be a whole number of sectors in length. The list of buffers can be of any length.

The data will not be copied, so the supplied buffers must not be re-used until the IO operation completes.

low-level convenience functions

val really_read : Lwt_unix.file_descr -> Cstruct.t -> unit Lwt.t

val really_write : Lwt_unix.file_descr -> Cstruct.t -> unit Lwt.t

val blkgetsize : string -> Unix.file_descr -> (int64, error) Result.result

blkgetsize path fd: returns the size of the open block device given by fd. path is only used to construct a human-readable error message.

module Config : sig ... end

val connect : ?buffered:bool -> ?sync:bool -> string -> t io

connect ?buffered ?sync path connects to a block device on the filesystem at path. By default I/O is unbuffered and fully synchronous. These defaults can be changed by supplying the optional arguments ~buffered:true and ~sync:false

val resize : t -> int64 -> (unit, write_error) Result.result io

resize t new_size_sectors attempts to resize the connected device to have the given number of sectors. If successful, subsequent calls to get_info will reflect the new size.

val flush : t -> (unit, write_error) Result.result io

flush t flushes any buffers, if the file has been opened in buffered mode

val seek_unmapped : t -> int64 -> (int64, error) Result.result io

seek_unmapped t start returns the sector offset of the next guaranteed zero-filled region (typically guaranteed because it is unmapped)

val seek_mapped : t -> int64 -> (int64, error) Result.result io

seek_mapped t start returns the sector offset of the next regoin of the device which may have data in it (typically this is the next mapped region)

val to_config : t -> Config.t

to_config t returns the configuration of a device

val of_config : Config.t -> t io

of_config config creates a fresh device from config