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Yan Zheng 5d4f98a28c Btrfs: Mixed back reference (FORWARD ROLLING FORMAT CHANGE)
This commit introduces a new kind of back reference for btrfs metadata.
Once a filesystem has been mounted with this commit, IT WILL NO LONGER
BE MOUNTABLE BY OLDER KERNELS.

When a tree block in subvolume tree is cow'd, the reference counts of all
extents it points to are increased by one.  At transaction commit time,
the old root of the subvolume is recorded in a "dead root" data structure,
and the btree it points to is later walked, dropping reference counts
and freeing any blocks where the reference count goes to 0.

The increments done during cow and decrements done after commit cancel out,
and the walk is a very expensive way to go about freeing the blocks that
are no longer referenced by the new btree root.  This commit reduces the
transaction overhead by avoiding the need for dead root records.

When a non-shared tree block is cow'd, we free the old block at once, and the
new block inherits old block's references. When a tree block with reference
count > 1 is cow'd, we increase the reference counts of all extents
the new block points to by one, and decrease the old block's reference count by
one.

This dead tree avoidance code removes the need to modify the reference
counts of lower level extents when a non-shared tree block is cow'd.
But we still need to update back ref for all pointers in the block.
This is because the location of the block is recorded in the back ref
item.

We can solve this by introducing a new type of back ref. The new
back ref provides information about pointer's key, level and in which
tree the pointer lives. This information allow us to find the pointer
by searching the tree. The shortcoming of the new back ref is that it
only works for pointers in tree blocks referenced by their owner trees.

This is mostly a problem for snapshots, where resolving one of these
fuzzy back references would be O(number_of_snapshots) and quite slow.
The solution used here is to use the fuzzy back references in the common
case where a given tree block is only referenced by one root,
and use the full back references when multiple roots have a reference
on a given block.

This commit adds per subvolume red-black tree to keep trace of cached
inodes. The red-black tree helps the balancing code to find cached
inodes whose inode numbers within a given range.

This commit improves the balancing code by introducing several data
structures to keep the state of balancing. The most important one
is the back ref cache. It caches how the upper level tree blocks are
referenced. This greatly reduce the overhead of checking back ref.

The improved balancing code scales significantly better with a large
number of snapshots.

This is a very large commit and was written in a number of
pieces.  But, they depend heavily on the disk format change and were
squashed together to make sure git bisect didn't end up in a
bad state wrt space balancing or the format change.

Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng <zheng.yan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2009-06-10 11:29:46 -04:00
Linus Torvalds 5732c46849 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable:
  Btrfs: Spelling fix in btrfs_lookup_first_block_group comments
  Btrfs: make show_options result match actual option names
  Btrfs: remove outdated comment in btrfs_ioctl_resize()
  Btrfs: remove some WARN_ONs in the IO failure path
  Btrfs: Don't loop forever on metadata IO failures
  Btrfs: init inode ordered_data_close flag properly
2009-05-14 19:18:44 -07:00
Sage Weil 6b65c5c61b Btrfs: make show_options result match actual option names
The notreelog and flushoncommit mount options were being printed slightly
differently.

Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2009-05-14 14:00:34 -04:00
Al Viro 6f5bbff9a1 Convert obvious places to deactivate_locked_super()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-05-09 10:49:40 -04:00
Linus Torvalds 4ebf662337 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable:
  Btrfs: look for acls during btrfs_read_locked_inode
  Btrfs: fix acl caching
  Btrfs: Fix a bunch of printk() warnings.
  Btrfs: Fix a trivial warning using max() of u64 vs ULL.
  Btrfs: remove unused btrfs_bit_radix slab
  Btrfs: ratelimit IO error printks
  Btrfs: remove #if 0 code
  Btrfs: When shrinking, only update disk size on success
  Btrfs: fix deadlocks and stalls on dead root removal
  Btrfs: fix fallocate deadlock on inode extent lock
  Btrfs: kill btrfs_cache_create
  Btrfs: don't export symbols
  Btrfs: simplify makefile
  Btrfs: try to keep a healthy ratio of metadata vs data block groups
2009-04-27 11:16:33 -07:00
Joel Becker 21380931eb Btrfs: Fix a bunch of printk() warnings.
Just happened to notice a bunch of %llu vs u64 warnings.  Here's a patch
to cast them all.

Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2009-04-27 08:37:49 -04:00
Josef Bacik 97e728d435 Btrfs: try to keep a healthy ratio of metadata vs data block groups
This patch makes the chunk allocator keep a good ratio of metadata vs data
block groups.  By default for every 8 data block groups, we'll allocate 1
metadata chunk, or about 12% of the disk will be allocated for metadata.  This
can be changed by specifying the metadata_ratio mount option.

This is simply the number of data block groups that have to be allocated to
force a metadata chunk allocation.  By making sure we allocate metadata chunks
more often, we are less likely to get into situations where the whole disk
has been allocated as data block groups.

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2009-04-24 15:46:02 -04:00
Li Zefan dae7b665cf btrfs: use memdup_user()
Remove open-coded memdup_user().

Note this changes some GFP_NOFS to GFP_KERNEL, since copy_from_user() may
cause pagefault, it's pointless to pass GFP_NOFS to kmalloc().

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-04-20 23:02:50 -04:00
Sage Weil dccae99995 Btrfs: add flushoncommit mount option
The 'flushoncommit' mount option forces any data dirtied by a write in a
prior transaction to commit as part of the current commit.  This makes
the committed state a fully consistent view of the file system from the
application's perspective (i.e., it includes all completed file system
operations).  This was previously the behavior only when a snapshot is
created.

This is used by Ceph to ensure that completed writes make it to the
platter along with the metadata operations they are bound to (by
BTRFS_IOC_TRANS_{START,END}).

Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2009-04-02 16:59:01 -04:00
Sage Weil 3a5e14048a Btrfs: notreelog mount option
Add a 'notreelog' mount option to disable the tree log (used by fsync,
O_SYNC writes).  This is much slower, but the tree logging produces
inconsistent views into the FS for ceph.

Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2009-04-02 16:49:40 -04:00
Eric Paris a9572a15a8 Btrfs: introduce btrfs_show_options
btrfs options can change at times other than mount, yet /proc/mounts shows the
options string used when the fs was mounted (an example would be when btrfs
determines that barriers aren't useful and turns them off.)  This patch
instead outputs the actual options in use by btrfs.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2009-04-02 16:46:06 -04:00
Chris Mason e1df36d2f1 Btrfs: don't clean old snapshots on sync(1)
Cleaning old snapshots can make sync(1) somewhat slow, and some users
and applications still use it in a global fsync kind of workload.

This patch changes btrfs not to clean old snapshots during sync, which is
safe from a FS consistency point of view.  The major downside is that it
makes it difficult to tell when old snapshots have been reaped and
the space they were using has been reclaimed.  A new ioctl will be added
for this purpose instead.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2009-02-12 09:45:08 -05:00
Chris Mason b288052e17 Btrfs: process mount options on mount -o remount,
Btrfs wasn't parsing any new mount options during remount, making it
difficult to set mount options on a root drive.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2009-02-12 09:37:35 -05:00
Chris Mason e4f722fa42 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable
Fix fs/btrfs/super.c conflict around #includes
2009-01-28 20:29:43 -05:00
Huang Weiyi 7eaebe7d50 Btrfs: removed unused #include <version.h>'s
Removed unused #include <version.h>'s in btrfs

Signed-off-by: Huang Weiyi <weiyi.huang@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2009-01-21 10:49:16 -05:00
Wang Cong 19d00cc196 Btrfs: cleanup fs/btrfs/super.c::btrfs_control_ioctl()
- Remove the unused local variable 'len';
- Check return value of kmalloc().

Signed-off-by: Wang Cong <wangcong@zeuux.org>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2009-01-21 10:49:16 -05:00
Linus Torvalds 4b48d9d44e Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable:
  Btrfs: fix ioctl arg size (userland incompatible change!)
  Btrfs: Clear the device->running_pending flag before bailing on congestion
2009-01-16 09:32:33 -08:00
Chris Mason c071fcfdb6 Btrfs: fix ioctl arg size (userland incompatible change!)
The structure used to send device in btrfs ioctl calls was not
properly aligned, and so 32 bit ioctls would not work properly on
64 bit kernels.

We could fix this with compat ioctls, but we're just one byte away
and it doesn't make sense at this stage to carry about the compat ioctls
forever at this stage in the project.

This patch brings the ioctl arg up to an evenly aligned 4k.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2009-01-16 11:59:08 -05:00
Qinghuang Feng 1bcbf31337 btrfs & squashfs: Move btrfs and squashfsto's magic number to <linux/magic.h>
Use the standard magic.h for btrfs and squashfs.

Signed-off-by: Qinghuang Feng <qhfeng.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-15 16:39:38 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 0176260fc3 btrfs: fix for write_super_lockfs/unlockfs error handling
Commit c4be0c1dc4 added the ability for
write_super_lockfs to return errors, and renamed them to match.  But
btrfs didn't get converted.

Do the minimal conversion to make it compile again.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-10 06:09:52 -08:00
Chris Mason d397712bcc Btrfs: Fix checkpatch.pl warnings
There were many, most are fixed now.  struct-funcs.c generates some warnings
but these are bogus.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2009-01-05 21:25:51 -05:00
Shen Feng 1f48366084 Btrfs: fix a memory leak in btrfs_get_sb
subvol_name should be freed if error occurs.

Signed-off-by: Shen Feng <shen@cn.fujitsu.com>
2009-01-05 15:43:42 -05:00
Chris Mason e441d54de4 Btrfs: add permission checks to the ioctls
Only root can add/remove devices
Only root can defrag subtrees
Only files open for writing can be defragged
Only files open for writing can be the destination for a clone

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2009-01-05 16:57:23 -05:00
Yan Zheng e4404d6e8d Btrfs: shared seed device
This patch makes seed device possible to be shared by
multiple mounted file systems. The sharing is achieved
by cloning seed device's btrfs_fs_devices structure.
Thanks you,

Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng <zheng.yan@oracle.com>
2008-12-12 10:03:26 -05:00
Christoph Hellwig 97288f2c71 Btrfs: corret fmode_t annotations
Make sure to propagate fmode_t properly and use the right constants for
it.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2008-12-02 06:36:09 -05:00
Christoph Hellwig b2950863c6 Btrfs: make things static and include the right headers
Shut up various sparse warnings about symbols that should be either
static or have their declarations in scope.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2008-12-02 09:54:17 -05:00
Chris Mason 4b4e25f2a6 Btrfs: compat code fixes
The btrfs git kernel trees is used to build a standalone tree for
compiling against older kernels.  This commit makes the standalone tree
work with 2.6.27

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-11-20 10:22:27 -05:00
Chris Mason 3de4586c52 Btrfs: Allow subvolumes and snapshots anywhere in the directory tree
Before, all snapshots and subvolumes lived in a single flat directory.  This
was awkward and confusing because the single flat directory was only writable
with the ioctls.

This commit changes the ioctls to create subvols and snapshots at any
point in the directory tree.  This requires making separate ioctls for
snapshot and subvol creation instead of a combining them into one.

The subvol ioctl does:

btrfsctl -S subvol_name parent_dir

After the ioctl is done subvol_name lives inside parent_dir.

The snapshot ioctl does:

btrfsctl -s path_for_snapshot root_to_snapshot

path_for_snapshot can be an absolute or relative path.  btrfsctl breaks it up
into directory and basename components.

root_to_snapshot can be any file or directory in the FS.  The snapshot
is taken of the entire root where that file lives.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-11-17 21:02:50 -05:00
Yan Zheng 2b82032c34 Btrfs: Seed device support
Seed device is a special btrfs with SEEDING super flag
set and can only be mounted in read-only mode. Seed
devices allow people to create new btrfs on top of it.

The new FS contains the same contents as the seed device,
but it can be mounted in read-write mode.

This patch does the following:

1) split code in btrfs_alloc_chunk into two parts. The first part does makes
the newly allocated chunk usable, but does not do any operation that modifies
the chunk tree. The second part does the the chunk tree modifications. This
division is for the bootstrap step of adding storage to the seed device.

2) Update device management code to handle seed device.
The basic idea is: For an FS grown from seed devices, its
seed devices are put into a list. Seed devices are
opened on demand at mounting time. If any seed device is
missing or has been changed, btrfs kernel module will
refuse to mount the FS.

3) make btrfs_find_block_group not return NULL when all
block groups are read-only.

Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng <zheng.yan@oracle.com>
2008-11-17 21:11:30 -05:00
Yan Zheng c146afad2c Btrfs: mount ro and remount support
This patch adds mount ro and remount support. The main
changes in patch are: adding btrfs_remount and related
helper function; splitting the transaction related code
out of close_ctree into btrfs_commit_super; updating
allocator to properly handle read only block group.

Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng <zheng.yan@oracle.com>
2008-11-12 14:34:12 -05:00
Chris Mason 771ed689d2 Btrfs: Optimize compressed writeback and reads
When reading compressed extents, try to put pages into the page cache
for any pages covered by the compressed extent that readpages didn't already
preload.

Add an async work queue to handle transformations at delayed allocation processing
time.  Right now this is just compression.  The workflow is:

1) Find offsets in the file marked for delayed allocation
2) Lock the pages
3) Lock the state bits
4) Call the async delalloc code

The async delalloc code clears the state lock bits and delalloc bits.  It is
important this happens before the range goes into the work queue because
otherwise it might deadlock with other work queue items that try to lock
those extent bits.

The file pages are compressed, and if the compression doesn't work the
pages are written back directly.

An ordered work queue is used to make sure the inodes are written in the same
order that pdflush or writepages sent them down.

This changes extent_write_cache_pages to let the writepage function
update the wbc nr_written count.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-11-06 22:02:51 -05:00
Chris Mason c8b978188c Btrfs: Add zlib compression support
This is a large change for adding compression on reading and writing,
both for inline and regular extents.  It does some fairly large
surgery to the writeback paths.

Compression is off by default and enabled by mount -o compress.  Even
when the -o compress mount option is not used, it is possible to read
compressed extents off the disk.

If compression for a given set of pages fails to make them smaller, the
file is flagged to avoid future compression attempts later.

* While finding delalloc extents, the pages are locked before being sent down
to the delalloc handler.  This allows the delalloc handler to do complex things
such as cleaning the pages, marking them writeback and starting IO on their
behalf.

* Inline extents are inserted at delalloc time now.  This allows us to compress
the data before inserting the inline extent, and it allows us to insert
an inline extent that spans multiple pages.

* All of the in-memory extent representations (extent_map.c, ordered-data.c etc)
are changed to record both an in-memory size and an on disk size, as well
as a flag for compression.

From a disk format point of view, the extent pointers in the file are changed
to record the on disk size of a given extent and some encoding flags.
Space in the disk format is allocated for compression encoding, as well
as encryption and a generic 'other' field.  Neither the encryption or the
'other' field are currently used.

In order to limit the amount of data read for a single random read in the
file, the size of a compressed extent is limited to 128k.  This is a
software only limit, the disk format supports u64 sized compressed extents.

In order to limit the ram consumed while processing extents, the uncompressed
size of a compressed extent is limited to 256k.  This is a software only limit
and will be subject to tuning later.

Checksumming is still done on compressed extents, and it is done on the
uncompressed version of the data.  This way additional encodings can be
layered on without having to figure out which encoding to checksum.

Compression happens at delalloc time, which is basically singled threaded because
it is usually done by a single pdflush thread.  This makes it tricky to
spread the compression load across all the cpus on the box.  We'll have to
look at parallel pdflush walks of dirty inodes at a later time.

Decompression is hooked into readpages and it does spread across CPUs nicely.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-10-29 14:49:59 -04:00
Chris Mason d352ac6814 Btrfs: add and improve comments
This improves the comments at the top of many functions.  It didn't
dive into the guts of functions because I was trying to
avoid merging problems with the new allocator and back reference work.

extent-tree.c and volumes.c were both skipped, and there is definitely
more work todo in cleaning and commenting the code.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-09-29 15:18:18 -04:00
Chris Mason 2b1f55b0f0 Remove Btrfs compat code for older kernels
Btrfs had compatibility code for kernels back to 2.6.18.  These have
been removed, and will be maintained in a separate backport
git tree from now on.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-09-25 15:41:59 -04:00
David Woodhouse 76fcef19c4 Btrfs: Reinstate '-osubvol=.' option to mount entire tree
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:49:35 +0100
This disappeared when I removed the special case for '.' in btrfs_lookup()

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-09-25 11:04:06 -04:00
David Woodhouse 32d48fa1af Mask root object ID into f_fsid in btrfs_statfs()
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:10:20 +0100
This means that subvolumes get a different fsid, and NFS exporting them
works properly.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-09-25 11:04:06 -04:00
David Woodhouse 9d03632e26 Fill f_fsid field in btrfs_statfs()
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:01:52 +0100
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-09-25 11:04:06 -04:00
Balaji Rao be6e8dc0ba NFS support for btrfs - v3
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:01:56 +0530
Here's an implementation of NFS support for btrfs. It relies on the
fixes which are going in to 2.6.28 for the NFS readdir/lookup deadlock.

This uses the btrfs_iget helper introduced previously.

[dwmw2: Tidy up a little, switch to d_obtain_alias() w/compat routine,
	change fh_type,	store parent's root object ID where needed,
	fix some get_parent() and fs_to_dentry() bugs]

Signed-off-by: Balaji Rao <balajirrao@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-09-25 11:04:06 -04:00
Yan Zheng b48652c101 Btrfs: Various small fixes.
This trivial patch contains two locking fixes and a off by one fix.

---

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-09-25 11:04:06 -04:00
Josef Bacik 33268eaf0b Btrfs: Add ACL support
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-09-25 11:04:05 -04:00
Chris Mason b3c3da71ed Btrfs: Add version strings on module load
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-09-25 11:04:05 -04:00
Chris Mason 3f157a2fd2 Btrfs: Online btree defragmentation fixes
The btree defragger wasn't making forward progress because the new key wasn't
being saved by the btrfs_search_forward function.

This also disables the automatic btree defrag, it wasn't scaling well to
huge filesystems.  The auto-defrag needs to be done differently.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-09-25 11:04:04 -04:00
Chris Mason a74a4b97b6 Btrfs: Replace the transaction work queue with kthreads
This creates one kthread for commits and one kthread for
deleting old snapshots.  All the work queues are removed.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-09-25 11:04:03 -04:00
Chris Mason a213501153 Btrfs: Replace the big fs_mutex with a collection of other locks
Extent alloctions are still protected by a large alloc_mutex.
Objectid allocations are covered by a objectid mutex
Other btree operations are protected by a lock on individual btree nodes

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-09-25 11:04:03 -04:00
Chris Mason 4543df7ecc Btrfs: Add a mount option to control worker thread pool size
mount -o thread_pool_size changes the default, which is
min(num_cpus + 2, 8).  Larger thread pools would make more sense on
very large disk arrays.

This mount option controls the max size of each thread pool.  There
are multiple thread pools, so the total worker count will be larger
than the mount option.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-09-25 11:04:03 -04:00
Chris Mason 15ada040d7 Btrfs: Fix mount -o max_inline=0
max_inline=0 used to force the max_inline size to one sector instead.  Now
it properly disables inline data items, while still being able to read
any that happen to exist on disk.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-09-25 11:04:03 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig 43e570b08a btrfs: allow scanning multiple devices during mount
Allows to specify one or multiple device=/dev/foo options during mount
so that ioctls on the control device can be avoided.  Especially useful
when trying to mount a multi-device setup as root.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-09-25 11:04:03 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig edf24abe51 btrfs: sanity mount option parsing and early mount code
Also adds lots of comments to describe what's going on here.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-09-25 11:04:03 -04:00
Sage Weil 6bf13c0cc8 Btrfs: transaction ioctls
These ioctls let a user application hold a transaction open while it
performs a series of operations.  A final ioctl does a sync on the fs
(closing the current transaction).  This is the main requirement for
Ceph's OSD to be able to keep the data it's storing in a btrfs volume
consistent, and AFAICS it works just fine.  The application would do
something like

	fd = ::open("some/file", O_RDONLY);
	::ioctl(fd, BTRFS_IOC_TRANS_START);
	/* do a bunch of stuff */
	::ioctl(fd, BTRFS_IOC_TRANS_END);
or just
	::close(fd);

And to ensure it commits to disk,

	::ioctl(fd, BTRFS_IOC_SYNC);

When a transaction is held open, the trans_handle is attached to the
struct file (via private_data) so that it will get cleaned up if the
process dies unexpectedly.  A held transaction is also ended on fsync() to
avoid a deadlock.

A misbehaving application could also deliberately hold a transaction open,
effectively locking up the FS, so it may make sense to restrict something
like this to root or something.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-09-25 11:04:03 -04:00
Linda Knippers f819d837ee btrfsctl -A error code fixup
Send the error back to userland if the ioctl fails

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2008-09-25 11:04:03 -04:00