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From: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com>
To: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com>, <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Btrfs: incompatible format change to remove hole extents V2
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 14:30:13 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131029183013.GH4543@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <526FFB38.4030008@suse.com>

On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 02:15:20PM -0400, Jeff Mahoney wrote:
> On 10/29/13, 9:56 AM, Josef Bacik wrote:
> > Btrfs has always had these filler extent data items for holes in inodes.  This
> > has made somethings very easy, like logging hole punches and sending hole
> > punches.  However for large holey files these extent data items are pure
> > overhead.  So add an incompatible feature to no longer add hole extents to
> > reduce the amount of metadata used by these sort of files.  This has a few
> > changes for logging and send obviously since they will need to detect holes and
> > log/send the holes if there are any.  I've tested this thoroughly with xfstests
> > and it doesn't cause any issues with and without the incompat format set.
> > Thanks,
> 
> This sounds like it could be a candidate for the online-enable mask in
> my feature ioctl patchset.

Yeah once I pull your stuff in I'll add it.  Thanks,

Josef

      reply	other threads:[~2013-10-29 18:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-29 13:56 [PATCH] Btrfs: incompatible format change to remove hole extents V2 Josef Bacik
2013-10-29 18:15 ` Jeff Mahoney
2013-10-29 18:30   ` Josef Bacik [this message]

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