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From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/14 RFC] Btrfs: Add journal for raid5/6 writes
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2017 04:02:01 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <pan$14041$94860338$dca2bb98$ddde8163@cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20170802202720.GB12533@localhost.localdomain

Liu Bo posted on Wed, 02 Aug 2017 14:27:21 -0600 as excerpted:

>> >> It is correct reading this as: all data is written two times ?

If as is being discussed the log is mirrored by default that'd be three 
times...

Parity-raid is slow and of course normally has the infamous write hole 
this patch set is trying to close.  Yes, closing the write hole is 
possible, but for sure it's going to make the performance bite of parity-
raid even worse. =:^(

>> >> Or are logged only the stripes involved by a RMW cycle (i.e. if a
>> >> stripe is fully written, the log is bypassed )?
>> > 
>> > For data, only data in bios from high level will be logged, while for
>> > parity, the whole parity will be logged.
>> > 
>> > Full stripe write still logs all data and parity, as full stripe
>> > write may not survive from unclean shutdown.
>> 
>> Does this matter ? Due to the COW nature of BTRFS if a transaction is
>> interrupted (by an unclean shutdown) the transaction data are all lost.
>> Am I missing something ?
>> 
>> What I want to understand, is if it is possible to log only the
>> "partial stripe"  RMW cycle.
>>
>>
> I think your point is valid if all data is written with datacow.  In
> case of nodatacow, btrfs does overwrite in place, so a full stripe write
> may pollute on-disk data after unclean shutdown.  Checksum can detect
> errors but repair thru raid5 may not recover the correct data.

But nodatacow doesn't have checksum...

-- 
Duncan - List replies preferred.   No HTML msgs.
"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
and if you use the program, he is your master."  Richard Stallman


  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-03  4:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-01 16:14 [PATCH 00/14 RFC] Btrfs: Add journal for raid5/6 writes Liu Bo
2017-08-01 16:14 ` [PATCH 01/14] Btrfs: raid56: add raid56 log via add_dev v2 ioctl Liu Bo
2017-08-02 19:25   ` Nikolay Borisov
2017-08-01 16:14 ` [PATCH 02/14] Btrfs: raid56: do not allocate chunk on raid56 log Liu Bo
2017-08-01 16:14 ` [PATCH 03/14] Btrfs: raid56: detect raid56 log on mount Liu Bo
2017-08-01 16:14 ` [PATCH 04/14] Btrfs: raid56: add verbose debug Liu Bo
2017-08-01 16:14 ` [PATCH 05/14] Btrfs: raid56: add stripe log for raid5/6 Liu Bo
2017-08-01 16:14 ` [PATCH 06/14] Btrfs: raid56: add reclaim support Liu Bo
2017-08-01 16:14 ` [PATCH 07/14] Btrfs: raid56: load r5log Liu Bo
2017-08-01 16:14 ` [PATCH 08/14] Btrfs: raid56: log recovery Liu Bo
2017-08-01 16:14 ` [PATCH 09/14] Btrfs: raid56: add readahead for recovery Liu Bo
2017-08-01 16:14 ` [PATCH 10/14] Btrfs: raid56: use the readahead helper to get page Liu Bo
2017-08-01 16:14 ` [PATCH 11/14] Btrfs: raid56: add csum support Liu Bo
2017-08-01 16:14 ` [PATCH 12/14] Btrfs: raid56: fix error handling while adding a log device Liu Bo
2017-08-01 16:14 ` [PATCH 13/14] Btrfs: raid56: initialize raid5/6 log after adding it Liu Bo
2017-08-01 16:14 ` [PATCH 14/14] Btrfs: raid56: maintain IO order on raid5/6 log Liu Bo
2017-08-01 16:14 ` [PATCH 1/2] Btrfs-progs: add option to add raid5/6 log device Liu Bo
2017-08-01 16:14 ` [PATCH 2/2] Btrfs-progs: introduce super_journal_tail to inspect-dump-super Liu Bo
2017-08-01 17:25 ` [PATCH 00/14 RFC] Btrfs: Add journal for raid5/6 writes Roman Mamedov
2017-08-01 17:03   ` Liu Bo
2017-08-01 17:39   ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2017-08-01 17:07     ` Liu Bo
2017-08-02 18:47     ` Chris Mason
2018-05-03 19:16       ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2017-08-01 17:28 ` Hugo Mills
2017-08-01 16:56   ` Liu Bo
2017-08-01 18:15     ` Hugo Mills
2017-08-01 17:42 ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2017-08-01 17:24   ` Liu Bo
2017-08-01 22:14     ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2017-08-02 17:57       ` Liu Bo
2017-08-02 20:41         ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2017-08-02 20:27           ` Liu Bo
2017-08-03  4:02             ` Duncan [this message]
2017-08-03  4:40               ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2017-08-23 15:28             ` Chris Murphy
2017-08-23 15:47               ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2017-08-25 13:53               ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2017-08-01 21:00 ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2017-08-01 22:24   ` Goffredo Baroncelli
     [not found] <CAL5DHTFA8G5fq=BQ7N7qQimesjygKTiBR2qZF4YBRAsAjB_L5Q@mail.gmail.com>
2019-07-30 16:20 ` Goffredo Baroncelli

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