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From: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com>
To: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 00/13] sysfs publishing patchset
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 14:26:02 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131022182602.GC27304@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131021211940.432195222@suse.com>

On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 05:19:40PM -0400, Jeff Mahoney wrote:
> This patchset implements the stubbed-out sysfs interface for btrfs. Or
> at least begins to do so.
> 
> We publish:
> - Features supported by the file system implementation
> - Features enabled on the file system, including features unknown to
>   the implemenation. These attributes can also be used to enable or
>   disable features at runtime, subjecting to a safety mask.
> - Uses the attribute names to print feature names when declining to
>   mount a file system.
> - The allocation data: global metadata reservation size and reserved,
>   space_infos, and sums of the block groups total and used bytes.
> - Device membership via links to the block devices.
> - FS label, which is writeable.
> 
> - I've also added matching ioctls for some of the functionality here so
>   that btrfsprogs can use the information without jumping through hoops
>   to read/parse the sysfs files. There are ioctls to query the supported
>   features and to query/set features on a particular file system. There's
>   also one to export the size of the global metadata reservation. I have
>   a patch for btrfs-progs that uses this to print useful info in 'btrfs
>   fi df' output.
> 
> Ultimately, the tree structure looks like the following, under /sys/fs/btrfs.
> This is from a test file system, using two devices in raid1. You'll notice
> the 'single' and 'raid1' directories under the {data,metadata,system} dirs.
> The raid profiles are created and removed as the first/last block group
> of a certain profile is added and removed.
> 

I'm not pulling in patches that add new functionality without an accompanying
xfstest so that we're not merging features without a way to test to make sure
they are working properly, this applies to the global metadata reservation ioctl
as well.  Thanks,

Josef

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-10-22 18:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-21 21:19 [patch 00/13] sysfs publishing patchset Jeff Mahoney
2013-10-21 21:19 ` [patch 01/13] btrfs: add ioctls to query/change feature bits online Jeff Mahoney
2013-10-21 21:19 ` [patch 02/13] kobject: export kobj_sysfs_ops Jeff Mahoney
2013-10-22 14:44   ` Jeff Mahoney
2013-10-21 21:19 ` [patch 03/13] btrfs: publish supported featured in sysfs Jeff Mahoney
2013-10-21 21:19 ` [patch 04/13] btrfs: publish per-super attributes " Jeff Mahoney
2013-10-21 21:19 ` [patch 05/13] btrfs: publish per-super features " Jeff Mahoney
2013-10-21 21:19 ` [patch 06/13] btrfs: publish unknown feature bits " Jeff Mahoney
2013-10-21 21:19 ` [patch 07/13] btrfs: add ability to change features via sysfs Jeff Mahoney
2013-10-21 21:19 ` [patch 08/13] btrfs: use feature attribute names to print better error messages Jeff Mahoney
2013-10-21 21:19 ` [patch 09/13] btrfs: add ioctl to export size of global metadata reservation Jeff Mahoney
2013-10-21 21:19 ` [patch 10/13] btrfs: publish allocation data in sysfs Jeff Mahoney
2013-10-29 18:49   ` Jeff Mahoney
2013-10-21 21:19 ` [patch 11/13] btrfs: publish device membership " Jeff Mahoney
2013-10-21 21:19 ` [patch 12/13] btrfs: publish fs label " Jeff Mahoney
2013-10-21 21:19 ` [patch 13/13] btrfs: add tracing for failed reservations Jeff Mahoney
2013-10-22 18:26 ` Josef Bacik [this message]
2013-10-22 18:39   ` [patch 00/13] sysfs publishing patchset Jeff Mahoney
2013-10-22 20:43     ` Josef Bacik
2013-10-29 18:25 ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2013-10-29 20:26   ` Jeff Mahoney
2013-10-29 21:57     ` Goffredo Baroncelli

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