From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Linux Filesystem Development List <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux btrfs Developers List <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>,
XFS Developers <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH-v4 2/7] vfs: add support for a lazytime mount option
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 00:36:56 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141128053656.GI14091@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141127230016.GH14091@thunk.org>
On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 06:00:16PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> Well.... it's not quite enough. The problem is that for ext3 and
> ext4, the actual work of writing the inode happens in dirty_inode(),
> not in write_inode(). Which means we need to do something like this.
>
> I'm not entirely sure whether or not this is too ugly to live;
> personally, I think my hack of handling this in update_time() might be
> preferable....
.... and this doesn't work because it breaks ext3/ext4's transaction
handling, since the writeback thread could be racing against some
transactional update of the inode. So I don't see a way of making the
queue_io / move_expired_inodes approach to the 24 hour time being
tractable.
So the alternatives that I can see at this point is either give up on
the 24 hour timeout, or we fall back to handling this in
update_time().
- Ted
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Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-26 10:23 [PATCH-v4 0/7] add support for a lazytime mount option Theodore Ts'o
2014-11-26 10:23 ` [PATCH-v4 1/7] vfs: split update_time() into update_time() and write_time() Theodore Ts'o
2014-11-26 19:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-11-27 12:34 ` Jan Kara
2014-11-27 15:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-11-27 14:41 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-11-27 15:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-11-27 15:33 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-11-27 16:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-11-27 20:27 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-12-01 9:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-12-01 15:04 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-12-01 17:18 ` David Sterba
2014-12-02 9:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-12-02 15:09 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-11-26 10:23 ` [PATCH-v4 2/7] vfs: add support for a lazytime mount option Theodore Ts'o
2014-11-27 13:14 ` Jan Kara
2014-11-27 20:19 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-11-28 12:41 ` Jan Kara
2014-11-27 23:00 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-11-28 5:36 ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2014-11-28 16:24 ` Jan Kara
2014-11-26 10:23 ` [PATCH-v4 3/7] vfs: don't let the dirty time inodes get more than a day stale Theodore Ts'o
2014-11-26 10:23 ` [PATCH-v4 4/7] vfs: add lazytime tracepoints for better debugging Theodore Ts'o
2014-11-26 10:23 ` [PATCH-v4 5/7] vfs: add find_active_inode_nowait() function Theodore Ts'o
2014-11-26 10:23 ` [PATCH-v4 6/7] ext4: add support for a lazytime mount option Theodore Ts'o
2014-11-26 19:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-11-26 22:48 ` Dave Chinner
2014-11-26 23:10 ` Andreas Dilger
2014-11-26 23:35 ` Dave Chinner
2014-11-27 13:27 ` Jan Kara
2014-11-27 13:32 ` Jan Kara
2014-11-27 15:25 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-11-27 15:41 ` Jan Kara
2014-11-27 20:13 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-11-26 10:23 ` [PATCH-v4 7/7] btrfs: add an is_readonly() so btrfs can use common code for update_time() Theodore Ts'o
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