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* Poll: time to switch skinny-metadata on by default?
@ 2014-10-16 11:33 David Sterba
  2014-10-20 16:34 ` David Sterba
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 28+ messages in thread
From: David Sterba @ 2014-10-16 11:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-btrfs; +Cc: clm, jbacik

Hi,

the core of skinny-metadata feature has been merged in 3.10 (Jun 2013)
and has been reportedly used by many people. No major bugs were reported
lately unless I missed them.

The obvious benefit is reduced metadata consumption at the cost of lost
backward compatibility for pre-3.10 kernels. I believe this is
acceptable to do the change now.

The feature can be turned off at mkfs time by '-O ^skinny-metadata' if
needed.

I'd like to make it default with the 3.17 release of btrfs-progs.
Please let me know if you have objections.

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* Re: Poll: time to switch skinny-metadata on by default?
@ 2014-10-17 12:30 Petr Janecek
  2014-10-17 18:25 ` Josef Bacik
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 28+ messages in thread
From: Petr Janecek @ 2014-10-17 12:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-btrfs; +Cc: dsterba

Hello,
 
> the core of skinny-metadata feature has been merged in 3.10 (Jun 2013)
> and has been reportedly used by many people. No major bugs were reported
> lately unless I missed them.

  so far I haven't succeeded running btrfs balance on a large
skinny-metadata fs -- segfault, kernel bug, reproducible.  No such
problems on ^skinny-metadata fs (same disks, same data).  Tried both
several times on 3.17.  More info in comments 10,14 in
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64961


Regards,

Petr

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2014-10-16 11:33 Poll: time to switch skinny-metadata on by default? David Sterba
2014-10-20 16:34 ` David Sterba
2014-10-21  9:29   ` Duncan
2014-10-21 11:02     ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2014-10-21 12:35       ` Konstantinos Skarlatos
2014-10-21 16:40     ` Rich Freeman
2014-10-22  2:08       ` Duncan
2014-10-22 12:49         ` Dave
2014-10-23  2:41           ` Duncan
2014-10-23 13:37             ` David Sterba
2014-10-23 14:47         ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2014-10-24  1:33           ` Duncan
2014-10-25 12:24   ` Marc Joliet
2014-10-25 19:58     ` Marc Joliet
2014-10-27  1:30       ` Marc Joliet
2014-10-25 20:33     ` Chris Murphy
2014-10-25 20:35       ` Chris Murphy
2014-10-27  1:24         ` Marc Joliet
2014-10-27  7:50           ` Duncan
2014-10-27  4:39   ` Zygo Blaxell
2014-10-27  7:16     ` Duncan
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2014-10-17 12:30 Petr Janecek
2014-10-17 18:25 ` Josef Bacik
2014-10-18 11:21   ` Petr Janecek
2014-10-18 14:04     ` Josef Bacik
2014-10-18 15:52       ` Wang Shilong
2014-10-18 15:53         ` Josef Bacik
2014-10-18 16:01           ` Wang Shilong

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