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From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: fstests@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Ideas to do custom operation just after mount?
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 09:28:15 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <pan$a07c5$8ea63042$e035dc2a$bbe2f2c1@cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20151222011424.03247982@jupiter.sol.kaishome.de

Kai Krakow posted on Tue, 22 Dec 2015 01:14:24 +0100 as excerpted:

> Am Mon, 21 Dec 2015 13:18:22 +0800 schrieb Anand Jain
> <anand.jain@oracle.com>:
> 
> 
>> 
>> > BTW, any good idea for btrfs to do such operation like
>> > enabling/disabling some minor features? Especially when it can be set
>> > on individual file/dirs.
>> >
>> > Features like incoming write time deduplication, is designed to be
>> > enabled/disabled for individual file/dirs, so it's not a quite good
>> > idea to use mount option to do it.
>> >
>> > Although some feature, like btrfs quota(qgroup), should be
>> > implemented by mount option though.
>> > I don't understand why qgroup is enabled/disabled by ioctl. :(
>> 
>> 
>> mount option won't persist across systems/computers unless remembered
>> by human.
> 
> Valid point, tho here's an counter-example: space-cache is persisted.
> Once enabled, it's always there until you clear AND disable it during
> initial mount.

Data point.  space_cache doesn't have to be manually enabled at all, 
unless it was turned off at some point; it's automatically enabled on 
mounting new btrfs.

At least, I've never specifically enabled (or disabled) space_cache on 
any of my btrfs here, yet they all have it enabled.

(Years ago, with my first btrfs experiments, a corrupted space_cache 
could cause the filesystem not to mount.  But then I left btrfs alone for 
awhile, and I guess in the mean time it learned to auto-correct such 
problems, as I've never had to worry about a bad space-cache failing a 
mount since I returned to using it, and that itself was two and a half 
years ago, now.  With the previous mount-blocker experience I was a 
rather nervous when I saw it enabled without me initially enabling it, 
but space_cache has basically "just worked" for me since then, tho I've 
had a few other mount-blocking bugs.)

-- 
Duncan - List replies preferred.   No HTML msgs.
"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
and if you use the program, he is your master."  Richard Stallman


  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-22  9:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-17  1:55 Ideas to do custom operation just after mount? Qu Wenruo
2015-12-21  0:16 ` Dave Chinner
2015-12-21  2:25   ` Qu Wenruo
2015-12-21  2:38     ` Qu Wenruo
2015-12-21  5:18       ` Anand Jain
2015-12-22  0:14         ` Kai Krakow
2015-12-22  9:28           ` Duncan [this message]
2015-12-23 23:17         ` Dave Chinner

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