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* [PATCH] Btrfs: Check metadata redundancy on balance
@ 2015-08-31 18:48 sam tygier
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: sam tygier @ 2015-08-31 18:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-btrfs

Resending, as I received no comments on previous submission.

Currently BTRFS allows you to make bad choices of data and 
metadata levels. For example -d raid1 -m raid0 means you can
only use half your total disk space, but will loose everything
if 1 disk fails. It should give a warning in these cases.

This patch is a follow up to
[PATCH v2] btrfs-progs: check metadata redundancy
in order to cover the case of using balance to convert to such
a set of raid levels.

A simple example to hit this is to create a single device fs, 
which will default to single:dup, then to add a second device and
attempt to convert to raid1 with the command
btrfs balance start -dconvert=raid1  /mnt
this will result in a filesystem with raid1:dup, which will not
survive the loss of one drive. I personally don't see why the tools
should allow this, but in the previous thread a warning was
considered sufficient.

Signed-off-by: Sam Tygier <samtygier@yahoo.co.uk>

From: Sam Tygier <samtygier@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2015 18:13:06 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Btrfs: Check metadata redundancy on balance

When converting a filesystem via balance check that metadata mode
is at least as redundant as the data mode. For example give warning
when:
-dconvert=raid1 -mconvert=single
---
 fs/btrfs/volumes.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
index fbe7c10..a0ce1f7 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
@@ -3454,6 +3454,24 @@ static void __cancel_balance(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info)
 	atomic_set(&fs_info->mutually_exclusive_operation_running, 0);
 }
 
+static int group_profile_max_safe_loss(u64 flag)
+{
+	switch (flag & BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_PROFILE_MASK) {
+	case 0: /* single */
+	case BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_DUP:
+	case BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_RAID0:
+		return 0;
+	case BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_RAID1:
+	case BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_RAID5:
+	case BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_RAID10:
+		return 1;
+	case BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_RAID6:
+		return 2;
+	default:
+		return -1;
+	}
+}
+
 /*
  * Should be called with both balance and volume mutexes held
  */
@@ -3572,6 +3590,12 @@ int btrfs_balance(struct btrfs_balance_control *bctl,
 		}
 	} while (read_seqretry(&fs_info->profiles_lock, seq));
 
+	if (group_profile_max_safe_loss(bctl->meta.target) <
+		group_profile_max_safe_loss(bctl->data.target)){
+		btrfs_info(fs_info,
+			"Warning: metatdata has lower redundancy than data\n");
+	}
+
 	if (bctl->sys.flags & BTRFS_BALANCE_ARGS_CONVERT) {
 		int num_tolerated_disk_barrier_failures;
 		u64 target = bctl->sys.target;
-- 
2.4.3



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* [PATCH] Btrfs: Check metadata redundancy on balance
@ 2015-09-16  8:42 sam tygier
  2015-09-16 10:15 ` Zhao Lei
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: sam tygier @ 2015-09-16  8:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-btrfs

It was recommended that I resend after the merge window. No
changes since last version.

Currently BTRFS allows you to make bad choices of data and 
metadata levels. For example -d raid1 -m raid0 means you can
only use half your total disk space, but will loose everything
if 1 disk fails. It should give a warning in these cases.

This patch is a follow up to
[PATCH v2] btrfs-progs: check metadata redundancy
in order to cover the case of using balance to convert to such
a set of raid levels.

A simple example to hit this is to create a single device fs, 
which will default to single:dup, then to add a second device and
attempt to convert to raid1 with the command
btrfs balance start -dconvert=raid1  /mnt
this will result in a filesystem with raid1:dup, which will not
survive the loss of one drive. I personally don't see why the tools
should allow this, but in the previous thread a warning was
considered sufficient.

Signed-off-by: Sam Tygier <samtygier@yahoo.co.uk>

From: Sam Tygier <samtygier@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2015 18:13:06 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Btrfs: Check metadata redundancy on balance

When converting a filesystem via balance check that metadata mode
is at least as redundant as the data mode. For example give warning
when:
-dconvert=raid1 -mconvert=single
---
 fs/btrfs/volumes.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
index fbe7c10..a0ce1f7 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
@@ -3454,6 +3454,24 @@ static void __cancel_balance(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info)
 	atomic_set(&fs_info->mutually_exclusive_operation_running, 0);
 }
 
+static int group_profile_max_safe_loss(u64 flag)
+{
+	switch (flag & BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_PROFILE_MASK) {
+	case 0: /* single */
+	case BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_DUP:
+	case BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_RAID0:
+		return 0;
+	case BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_RAID1:
+	case BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_RAID5:
+	case BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_RAID10:
+		return 1;
+	case BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_RAID6:
+		return 2;
+	default:
+		return -1;
+	}
+}
+
 /*
  * Should be called with both balance and volume mutexes held
  */
@@ -3572,6 +3590,12 @@ int btrfs_balance(struct btrfs_balance_control *bctl,
 		}
 	} while (read_seqretry(&fs_info->profiles_lock, seq));
 
+	if (group_profile_max_safe_loss(bctl->meta.target) <
+		group_profile_max_safe_loss(bctl->data.target)){
+		btrfs_info(fs_info,
+			"Warning: metatdata has lower redundancy than data\n");
+	}
+
 	if (bctl->sys.flags & BTRFS_BALANCE_ARGS_CONVERT) {
 		int num_tolerated_disk_barrier_failures;
 		u64 target = bctl->sys.target;
-- 
2.4.3



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* RE: [PATCH] Btrfs: Check metadata redundancy on balance
  2015-09-16  8:42 sam tygier
@ 2015-09-16 10:15 ` Zhao Lei
  2015-09-20  8:31   ` sam tygier
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Zhao Lei @ 2015-09-16 10:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 'sam tygier', linux-btrfs

Hi, sam tygier

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org
> [mailto:linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of sam tygier
> Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2015 4:42 PM
> To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: [PATCH] Btrfs: Check metadata redundancy on balance
> 
> It was recommended that I resend after the merge window. No changes since
> last version.
> 
> Currently BTRFS allows you to make bad choices of data and metadata levels.
> For example -d raid1 -m raid0 means you can only use half your total disk space,
> but will loose everything if 1 disk fails. It should give a warning in these cases.
> 
> This patch is a follow up to
> [PATCH v2] btrfs-progs: check metadata redundancy in order to cover the case
> of using balance to convert to such a set of raid levels.
> 

Can we check and show warning of balance operation in btrfs-progs,
just like above patch?

> A simple example to hit this is to create a single device fs, which will default to
> single:dup, then to add a second device and attempt to convert to raid1 with
> the command btrfs balance start -dconvert=raid1  /mnt this will result in a
> filesystem with raid1:dup, which will not survive the loss of one drive. I
> personally don't see why the tools should allow this, but in the previous thread
> a warning was considered sufficient.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sam Tygier <samtygier@yahoo.co.uk>
> 
> From: Sam Tygier <samtygier@yahoo.co.uk>
> Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2015 18:13:06 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] Btrfs: Check metadata redundancy on balance
> 
> When converting a filesystem via balance check that metadata mode is at least
> as redundant as the data mode. For example give warning
> when:
> -dconvert=raid1 -mconvert=single
> ---
>  fs/btrfs/volumes.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c index fbe7c10..a0ce1f7
> 100644
> --- a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
> +++ b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
> @@ -3454,6 +3454,24 @@ static void __cancel_balance(struct btrfs_fs_info
> *fs_info)
>  	atomic_set(&fs_info->mutually_exclusive_operation_running, 0);  }
> 
> +static int group_profile_max_safe_loss(u64 flag) {
> +	switch (flag & BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_PROFILE_MASK) {
> +	case 0: /* single */
> +	case BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_DUP:
> +	case BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_RAID0:
> +		return 0;
> +	case BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_RAID1:
> +	case BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_RAID5:
> +	case BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_RAID10:
> +		return 1;
> +	case BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_RAID6:
> +		return 2;
> +	default:
> +		return -1;
> +	}
> +}
> +

Maybe btrfs_get_num_tolerated_disk_barrier_failures()
fits above request, better to use existence function if possible.

Thanks
Zhaolei


>  /*
>   * Should be called with both balance and volume mutexes held
>   */
> @@ -3572,6 +3590,12 @@ int btrfs_balance(struct btrfs_balance_control
> *bctl,
>  		}
>  	} while (read_seqretry(&fs_info->profiles_lock, seq));
> 
> +	if (group_profile_max_safe_loss(bctl->meta.target) <
> +		group_profile_max_safe_loss(bctl->data.target)){
> +		btrfs_info(fs_info,
> +			"Warning: metatdata has lower redundancy than data\n");
> +	}
> +
>  	if (bctl->sys.flags & BTRFS_BALANCE_ARGS_CONVERT) {
>  		int num_tolerated_disk_barrier_failures;
>  		u64 target = bctl->sys.target;
> --
> 2.4.3
> 
> 
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* Re: [PATCH] Btrfs: Check metadata redundancy on balance
  2015-09-16 10:15 ` Zhao Lei
@ 2015-09-20  8:31   ` sam tygier
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: sam tygier @ 2015-09-20  8:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-btrfs

On 16/09/15 11:15, Zhao Lei wrote:
> Hi, sam tygier
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org
>> [mailto:linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of sam tygier
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2015 4:42 PM
>> To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
>> Subject: [PATCH] Btrfs: Check metadata redundancy on balance
>>
>> It was recommended that I resend after the merge window. No changes since
>> last version.
>>
>> Currently BTRFS allows you to make bad choices of data and metadata levels.
>> For example -d raid1 -m raid0 means you can only use half your total disk space,
>> but will loose everything if 1 disk fails. It should give a warning in these cases.
>>
>> This patch is a follow up to
>> [PATCH v2] btrfs-progs: check metadata redundancy in order to cover the case
>> of using balance to convert to such a set of raid levels.
>>
> 
> Can we check and show warning of balance operation in btrfs-progs,
> just like above patch?
> 

I was not completely sure if this was better suited in btrfs-progs or the kernel.
The existing checks against reducing redundancy are on the kernel side. Currently
it looks like btrfs-progs does look at the current levels, only passes the arguments
through to the kernel. If this was put on the btrfs-progs side, would it be an
issue that some other tool might call the kernel directly, and bypass the check. 


>> A simple example to hit this is to create a single device fs, which will default to
>> single:dup, then to add a second device and attempt to convert to raid1 with
>> the command btrfs balance start -dconvert=raid1  /mnt this will result in a
>> filesystem with raid1:dup, which will not survive the loss of one drive. I
>> personally don't see why the tools should allow this, but in the previous thread
>> a warning was considered sufficient.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Sam Tygier <samtygier@yahoo.co.uk>
>>
>> From: Sam Tygier <samtygier@yahoo.co.uk>
>> Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2015 18:13:06 +0100
>> Subject: [PATCH] Btrfs: Check metadata redundancy on balance
>>
>> When converting a filesystem via balance check that metadata mode is at least
>> as redundant as the data mode. For example give warning
>> when:
>> -dconvert=raid1 -mconvert=single
>> ---
>>   fs/btrfs/volumes.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>   1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c index fbe7c10..a0ce1f7
>> 100644
>> --- a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
>> +++ b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
>> @@ -3454,6 +3454,24 @@ static void __cancel_balance(struct btrfs_fs_info
>> *fs_info)
>>   	atomic_set(&fs_info->mutually_exclusive_operation_running, 0);  }
>>
>> +static int group_profile_max_safe_loss(u64 flag) {
>> +	switch (flag & BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_PROFILE_MASK) {
>> +	case 0: /* single */
>> +	case BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_DUP:
>> +	case BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_RAID0:
>> +		return 0;
>> +	case BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_RAID1:
>> +	case BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_RAID5:
>> +	case BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_RAID10:
>> +		return 1;
>> +	case BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_RAID6:
>> +		return 2;
>> +	default:
>> +		return -1;
>> +	}
>> +}
>> +
> 
> Maybe btrfs_get_num_tolerated_disk_barrier_failures()
> fits above request, better to use existence function if possible.

Sorry, I missed that. If it stays kernel side, I can switch to this. If it moves
to btrfs-progs I'll use the existing group_profile_max_safe_loss()

> Thanks
> Zhaolei
> 
> 
>>   /*
>>    * Should be called with both balance and volume mutexes held
>>    */
>> @@ -3572,6 +3590,12 @@ int btrfs_balance(struct btrfs_balance_control
>> *bctl,
>>   		}
>>   	} while (read_seqretry(&fs_info->profiles_lock, seq));
>>
>> +	if (group_profile_max_safe_loss(bctl->meta.target) <
>> +		group_profile_max_safe_loss(bctl->data.target)){
>> +		btrfs_info(fs_info,
>> +			"Warning: metatdata has lower redundancy than data\n");
>> +	}
>> +
>>   	if (bctl->sys.flags & BTRFS_BALANCE_ARGS_CONVERT) {
>>   		int num_tolerated_disk_barrier_failures;
>>   		u64 target = bctl->sys.target;
>> --
>> 2.4.3



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