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From: Goffredo Baroncelli <kreijack@libero.it>
To: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>,
	"Austin S. Hemmelgarn" <ahferroin7@gmail.com>,
	Roman Mamedov <rm@romanrm.net>, Liu Bo <bo.li.liu@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/14 RFC] Btrfs: Add journal for raid5/6 writes
Date: Thu, 3 May 2018 21:16:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0f1198b1-bad0-f9d3-dda8-79a67b329e16@libero.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5800c104-5b03-8d48-bb49-b1710be05cd0@fb.com>

On 08/02/2017 08:47 PM, Chris Mason wrote:
>> I agree, MD pretty much needs a separate device simply because they can't allocate arbitrary space on the other array members.  BTRFS can do that though, and I would actually think that that would be _easier_ to implement than having a separate device.
>>
>> That said, I do think that it would need to be a separate chunk type, because things could get really complicated if the metadata is itself using a parity raid profile.
> 
> Thanks for running with this Liu, I'm reading through all the patches. I do agree that it's better to put the logging into a dedicated chunk type, that way we can have it default to either double or triple mirroring.

Sorry for reply a bit late :-), however it should be sufficient to start the writes from the stripe boundary. For a filesystem this is complicate to grant, however for a journal it would be more simple to do;

BR
G.Baroncelli

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-05-03 19:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-01 16:14 [PATCH 00/14 RFC] Btrfs: Add journal for raid5/6 writes Liu Bo
2017-08-01 16:14 ` [PATCH 01/14] Btrfs: raid56: add raid56 log via add_dev v2 ioctl Liu Bo
2017-08-02 19:25   ` Nikolay Borisov
2017-08-01 16:14 ` [PATCH 02/14] Btrfs: raid56: do not allocate chunk on raid56 log Liu Bo
2017-08-01 16:14 ` [PATCH 03/14] Btrfs: raid56: detect raid56 log on mount Liu Bo
2017-08-01 16:14 ` [PATCH 04/14] Btrfs: raid56: add verbose debug Liu Bo
2017-08-01 16:14 ` [PATCH 05/14] Btrfs: raid56: add stripe log for raid5/6 Liu Bo
2017-08-01 16:14 ` [PATCH 06/14] Btrfs: raid56: add reclaim support Liu Bo
2017-08-01 16:14 ` [PATCH 07/14] Btrfs: raid56: load r5log Liu Bo
2017-08-01 16:14 ` [PATCH 08/14] Btrfs: raid56: log recovery Liu Bo
2017-08-01 16:14 ` [PATCH 09/14] Btrfs: raid56: add readahead for recovery Liu Bo
2017-08-01 16:14 ` [PATCH 10/14] Btrfs: raid56: use the readahead helper to get page Liu Bo
2017-08-01 16:14 ` [PATCH 11/14] Btrfs: raid56: add csum support Liu Bo
2017-08-01 16:14 ` [PATCH 12/14] Btrfs: raid56: fix error handling while adding a log device Liu Bo
2017-08-01 16:14 ` [PATCH 13/14] Btrfs: raid56: initialize raid5/6 log after adding it Liu Bo
2017-08-01 16:14 ` [PATCH 14/14] Btrfs: raid56: maintain IO order on raid5/6 log Liu Bo
2017-08-01 16:14 ` [PATCH 1/2] Btrfs-progs: add option to add raid5/6 log device Liu Bo
2017-08-01 16:14 ` [PATCH 2/2] Btrfs-progs: introduce super_journal_tail to inspect-dump-super Liu Bo
2017-08-01 17:25 ` [PATCH 00/14 RFC] Btrfs: Add journal for raid5/6 writes Roman Mamedov
2017-08-01 17:03   ` Liu Bo
2017-08-01 17:39   ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2017-08-01 17:07     ` Liu Bo
2017-08-02 18:47     ` Chris Mason
2018-05-03 19:16       ` Goffredo Baroncelli [this message]
2017-08-01 17:28 ` Hugo Mills
2017-08-01 16:56   ` Liu Bo
2017-08-01 18:15     ` Hugo Mills
2017-08-01 17:42 ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2017-08-01 17:24   ` Liu Bo
2017-08-01 22:14     ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2017-08-02 17:57       ` Liu Bo
2017-08-02 20:41         ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2017-08-02 20:27           ` Liu Bo
2017-08-03  4:02             ` Duncan
2017-08-03  4:40               ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2017-08-23 15:28             ` Chris Murphy
2017-08-23 15:47               ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2017-08-25 13:53               ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2017-08-01 21:00 ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2017-08-01 22:24   ` Goffredo Baroncelli
     [not found] <CAL5DHTFA8G5fq=BQ7N7qQimesjygKTiBR2qZF4YBRAsAjB_L5Q@mail.gmail.com>
2019-07-30 16:20 ` Goffredo Baroncelli

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