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From: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [bcachefs] time of mounting filesystem with high number of dirs
 aka ageing filesystem
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 05:19:00 -0800
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On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 02:51:11PM +0200, Marcin Mirosław wrote:
> W dniu 18.10.2016 o 14:45, Kent Overstreet pisze:
> > The issue is that right now btree node coalescing is only run as a batch pass
> > when mark and sweep GC runs (it has nothing to do with GC, it just runs at the
> > same time in the current code). At some point we need to come up with a good way
> > of triggering it as needed.
> > 
> > Try triggering a gc, and then check mount time:
> > 
> > echo 1 > /sys/fs/bcache/<uuid>/internal/trigger_gc
> 
> No change:
> [ 8417.101640] bcache (dm-12): starting mark and sweep:
> [ 8433.795575] bcache (dm-12): mark and sweep done
> [ 8433.795842] bcache (dm-12): starting journal replay:
> [ 8433.796064] bcache (dm-12): journal replay done, 129 keys in 90
> entries, seq 28581
> [ 8433.796075] bcache (dm-12): journal replay done
> [ 8433.796076] bcache (dm-12): starting fs gc:
> [ 8433.799493] bcache (dm-12): fs gc done
> [ 8433.799495] bcache (dm-12): starting fsck:
> [ 8433.800613] bcache (dm-12): fsck done
> 
> 
> /dev/mapper/system10-bcache  9,8G  421M  9,4G   5% /mnt/test

well that's odd.

I'll work on getting some more information out of coalescing tomorrow.