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I need everybody to go over this with a fine toothed comb since it is a pretty big change. I think it is right and it seems to come out right, but if it''s not it will mean we screw up O_DIRECT on snapshotted files with preallocated extents, so please, make sure it is correct :). --- Subject: [PATCH] Btrfs: rework can_nocow_odirect We are always doing the file extent lookup in here

Hi, If i set strict allocate = yes in samba to speed up the transfer of a mssql database dump, then btrfs does not compress the file. I have tried it also by just copying a small file in Windows to the samba share and the same. I have tried btrfs mount options autodefrag and then btrfs fi defrag -c and the file still does not get compressed. I have tried kernels 3.6.11, 3.8 and 3.10.7 on FC16

Christoph Hellwig wrote: > There are a lot of variables when using qemu. > > The most important one are: > > - the cache mode on the device. The default is cache=writethrough, > which is not quite optimal. You generally do want to use cache=none > which uses O_DIRECT in qemu. > - if the backing image is sparse or not. > - if you use barrier - both in the host

After running ceph on XFS for some time, I decided to try btrfs again. Performance with the current "for-linux-min" branch and big metadata is much better. The only problem (?) I''m still seeing is a warning that seems to occur from time to time: [87703.784552] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [87703.789759] WARNING: at fs/btrfs/inode.c:2103

Hi All, I''m trying to repair a broken fs using btrfsck and am hitting a failed assertion. I''d appreciate any suggestions for what to do next. Is there any thing I can do to help fix this bug? Any other information from my FS which would help? If the FS could be salvaged that would be a bonus, but I''m more interested in providing a useful bug report before wiping the

Hello, some time ago we discussed on #btrfs that the nocow attribute for files wasn''t working (around 3.3 or 3.4 kernels). That was evident by files fragmenting even with the attribute set. Chris mentioned to find a fix quickly for that, and posted some lines of change into irc. But recently someone mentioned that 3.6-rc looks like still not respecting nocow for files. Is there really

V1->V2: Check to see if our current ppos is >= i_size after a short DIO read, just in case it was actually a short read and we need to just return. This is similar to what already happens in the write case. If we have a short read while doing O_DIRECT, instead of just returning, fallthrough and try to read the rest via buffered IO. BTRFS needs this because if we encounter a compressed or

An user reported that he has hit an annoying deadlock while playing with ceph based on btrfs. Current updating device tree requires space from METADATA chunk, so we -may- need to do a recursive chunk allocation when adding/updating dev extent, that is where the deadlock comes from. If we use SYSTEM metadata to update device tree, we can avoid the recursive stuff. Reported-by: Jim Schutt

Hello, I just updated and pushed btrfs-next, if it is missing something let me know. I had to kick out the printk formatting patch because it didn''t compile and I didn''t take Miao''s background enospc flushing stuff since some of it didn''t apply and 5/5 hasn''t been updated to force waiting on background flushers. Let me know if I missed anything

When testing with max_extents=4k, we enospc out really really early. The reason for this is we really overwhelm the system with our worst case calculation. When we try to flush delalloc, we don''t want everybody to wait around forever, so we wake up the waiters when we''ve done some of the work in hopes that its enough work to get everything they need done. The problem with this

If we have particularly full nodes, we could call btrfs_node_blockptr up to 32 times, which is 32 pairs of kmap/kunmap, which _sucks_. So go ahead and map the extent buffer while we look for readahead targets. Thanks, Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com> --- fs/btrfs/ctree.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git

We''re going to use this flag EXTENT_DEFRAG to indicate which range belongs to defragment so that we can implement snapshow-aware defrag: We set the EXTENT_DEFRAG flag when dirtying the extents that need defragmented, so later on writeback thread can differentiate between normal writeback and writeback started by defragmentation. This patch is used for the latter one. Originally patch

I set the C (NOCOW) and z (Not_Compressed) flags on a folder but the extent counts of files contained there keep increasing. Said files are large and frequently modified but not changing in size. This does not happen when the filesystem is mounted with nodatacow. I''m using this as a workaround since subvolumes can''t be mounted with different options simultaneously. ie. one with

I wanted to see how btrfs compares to other filesystems so I have been running bonnie++ on it. While the results are good(much faster then ext2) every once in awhile I get a kernel oops. I am testing on xubuntu 8.10 with the 2.6.27-7-686 kernel using the latest git sources. Most of the time the oops happens within 20min of running bonnie++ but sometimes it takes a few hours. This happens with and

Btrfs had some issues with fsync()''ing directories and fsync()''ing after renames. These three new tests cover the 3 different issues we were seeing. This breaks out the dmflakey stuff into a common helper to be shared between generic/311 and generic/321. Thanks, Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com> --- V1->V2: rename test to generic/321 -removed an

I noticed while running xfstests 83 that if we didn''t have enough space to delete our inode the orphan cleanup would just loop. This is because it keeps finding the same orphan item and keeps trying to kill it but can''t because we don''t get an error back from iput for deleting the inode. So keep track of the last guy we tried to kill, if it''s the same as the

Greetings all, I see the following issue during snap creation under IO: Transaction commit calls btrfs_start_delalloc_inodes() that locks the delalloc_inodes list, fetches the first inode, unlocks the list, triggers btrfs_alloc_delalloc_work/btrfs_queue_worker for this inode and then locks the list again. Then it checks the head of the list again. In my case, this is always exactly the same

V1->V2: Check to see if our current ppos is >= i_size after a short DIO read, just in case it was actually a short read and we need to just return. This is similar to what already happens in the write case. If we have a short read while doing O_DIRECT, instead of just returning, fallthrough and try to read the rest via buffered IO. BTRFS needs this because if we encounter a compressed or

Btrfs uses an rwsem to control access to its extent tree. Threads will hold a read lock on this rwsem while they scan the extent tree, and if need_resched() they will drop the lock and schedule. The transaction commit needs to take a write lock for this rwsem for a very short period to switch out the commit roots. If there are a lot of threads doing this caching operation we can starve out the

SAMSUNG SSD 830 Series CPU0: Intel® Core(TM) i7-2820QM CPU @ 2.30GHz (fam: 06, model: 2a, stepping: 07) 8GB RAM (quite heavily tested, not recently, with several days of memtest) kernel 3.11.1-200.fc19.x86_64 running on baremetal btrfs-progs-0.20.rc1.20130308git704a08c-1.fc19.x86_64 Today I did a scrub on a btrfs volume, with no message or errors in console or dmesg or journal. Immediately after