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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo.btrfs@gmx.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	dsterba@suse.cz, Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>,
	linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH DRAFT] btrfs: RAID56J journal on-disk format draft
Date: Wed, 25 May 2022 02:26:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yo32VXWO81PlccWH@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bd6ac4d4-41bf-f662-e7c0-7841895554a6@gmx.com>

On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 05:13:11PM +0800, Qu Wenruo wrote:
> The problem is, we can have partial write for RAID56, no matter if we
> use NODATACOW or not.
> 
> For example, we have a very typical 3 disks RAID5:
> 
> 	0	32K	64K
> Disk 1  |DDDDDDD|       |
> Disk 2  |ddddddd|ddddddd|
> Disk 3  |PPPPPPP|PPPPPPP|
> 
> 
> D = old data, it's there for a while.
> d = new data, we want to write.

Oh.  I keep forgetting that the striping is entirely on the physіcal
block basis and not logic block basis.  Which makes the whole idea
of btrfs integrated raid5/6 not all that useful compared to just using
mdraid :(

  reply	other threads:[~2022-05-25  9:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-24  6:13 [PATCH DRAFT] btrfs: RAID56J journal on-disk format draft Qu Wenruo
2022-05-24 11:08 ` kernel test robot
2022-05-24 12:19 ` kernel test robot
2022-05-24 17:02 ` David Sterba
2022-05-24 22:31   ` Qu Wenruo
2022-05-25  9:00   ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-05-25  9:13     ` Qu Wenruo
2022-05-25  9:26       ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2022-05-25  9:35         ` Qu Wenruo
2022-05-26  9:06           ` waxhead
2022-05-26  9:26             ` Qu Wenruo
2022-05-26 15:30               ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2022-05-26 16:10                 ` David Sterba
2022-06-01  2:06 ` Wang Yugui
2022-06-01  2:13   ` Qu Wenruo
2022-06-01  2:25     ` Wang Yugui
2022-06-01  2:55       ` Qu Wenruo
2022-06-01  9:07         ` Wang Yugui
2022-06-01  9:27           ` Qu Wenruo
2022-06-01  9:56             ` Paul Jones
2022-06-01 10:12               ` Qu Wenruo
2022-06-01 18:49                 ` Martin Raiber
2022-06-01 21:37                   ` Qu Wenruo
2022-06-03  9:32                     ` Lukas Straub
2022-06-03  9:59                       ` Qu Wenruo
2022-06-06  8:16                         ` Qu Wenruo
2022-06-06 11:21                           ` Qu Wenruo
2022-06-06 18:10                             ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2022-06-07  1:27                               ` Qu Wenruo
2022-06-07 17:36                                 ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2022-06-07 22:14                                   ` Qu Wenruo
2022-06-08 17:26                                     ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2022-06-13  2:27                                       ` Qu Wenruo
2022-06-08 15:17                         ` Lukas Straub
2022-06-08 17:32                           ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2022-06-01 12:21               ` Qu Wenruo
2022-06-01 14:55                 ` Robert Krig

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