Re: [PATCH v3] btrfs: Introduce new mount option to disable tree log replay

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Qu Wenruo posted on Wed, 16 Dec 2015 09:36:23 +0800 as excerpted:

> David Sterba wrote on 2015/12/14 18:32 +0100:
>> On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 10:34:06AM +0800, Qu Wenruo wrote:
>>> Introduce a new mount option "nologreplay" to co-operate with "ro"
>>> mount option to get real readonly mount, like "norecovery" in ext* and
>>> xfs.
>>>
>>> Since the new parse_options() need to check new flags at remount time,
>>> so add a new parameter for parse_options().
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo@cn.fujitsu.com>
>>> Reviewed-by: Chandan Rajendra <chandan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>>> Tested-by: Austin S. Hemmelgarn <ahferroin7@gmail.com>
>>
>> I've read the discussions around the change and from the user's POV I'd
>> suggest to add another mount option that would be just an alias for any
>> mount options that would implement the 'hard-ro' semantics.
>>
>> Say it's called 'nowr'. Now it would imply 'nologreplay', but may cover
>> more options in the future.
>>
>>   mount -o ro,nowr /dev/sdx /mnt
>>
>> would work when switching kernels.
>>
>>
> That would be nice.
> 
> I'd like to forward the idea/discussion to filesystem ml, not only btrfs
> maillist.
> 
> Such behavior should better be coordinated between all(at least xfs and
> ext4 and btrfs) filesystems.
> 
> One sad example is, we can't use 'norecovery' mount option to disable
> log replay in btrfs, as there is 'recovery' mount option already.
> 
> So I hope we can have a unified mount option between mainline
> filesystems.

FWIW, I was just reading the mount manpage in connection with a reply for 
a different thread, and noticed...

mount (8) (from util-linux 2.27.1) says noload and norecovery are the 
same option, for ext3/4 at least.  It refers to the xfs (5) manpage, from 
xfsprogs, for xfs mount options, and that's not installed here, so I 
can't confirm noload for it, but it's there for ext3/4.

And noload doesn't have the namespace collision problem norecovery does 
on btrfs, so I'd strongly suggest using it, at least as an alias for 
whatever other btrfs-specific name we might choose.

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