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Wong" , Benjamin Coddington , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, v9fs@lists.linux.dev, linux-afs@lists.infradead.org, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org, codalist@coda.cs.cmu.edu, ecryptfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-erofs@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, cluster-devel@redhat.com, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, ntfs3@lists.linux.dev, ocfs2-devel@lists.linux.dev, devel@lists.orangefs.org, linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, samba-technical@lists.samba.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 12/13] ext4: switch to multigrain timestamps Message-ID: <20230920124823.ghl6crb5sh4x2pmt@quack3> References: <20230807-mgctime-v7-0-d1dec143a704@kernel.org> <20230919110457.7fnmzo4nqsi43yqq@quack3> <1f29102c09c60661758c5376018eac43f774c462.camel@kernel.org> <4511209.uG2h0Jr0uP@nimes> <08b5c6fd3b08b87fa564bb562d89381dd4e05b6a.camel@kernel.org> <20230920-leerung-krokodil-52ec6cb44707@brauner> <20230920101731.ym6pahcvkl57guto@quack3> <317d84b1b909b6c6519a2406fcb302ce22dafa41.camel@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <317d84b1b909b6c6519a2406fcb302ce22dafa41.camel@kernel.org> X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20230920_054830_356039_BAB2CF67 X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 24.09 ) X-BeenThere: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "linux-mtd" Errors-To: linux-mtd-bounces+linux-mtd=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org On Wed 20-09-23 06:35:18, Jeff Layton wrote: > On Wed, 2023-09-20 at 12:17 +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > > If I were a sysadmin, I'd rather opt for something like > > finegrained timestamps + lazytime (if I needed the finegrained timestamps > > functionality). That should avoid the IO overhead of finegrained timestamps > > as well and I'd know I can have problems with timestamps only after a > > system crash. > > > I've just got another idea how we could solve the problem: Couldn't we > > always just report coarsegrained timestamp to userspace and provide access > > to finegrained value only to NFS which should know what it's doing? > > > > I think that'd be hard. First of all, where would we store the second > timestamp? We can't just truncate the fine-grained ones to come up with > a coarse-grained one. It might also be confusing having nfsd and local > filesystems present different attributes. So what I had in mind (and I definitely miss all the NFS intricacies so the idea may be bogus) was that inode->i_ctime would be maintained exactly as is now. There will be new (kernel internal at least for now) STATX flag STATX_MULTIGRAIN_TS. fill_mg_cmtime() will return timestamp truncated to sb->s_time_gran unless STATX_MULTIGRAIN_TS is set. Hence unless you set STATX_MULTIGRAIN_TS, there is no difference in the returned timestamps compared to the state before multigrain timestamps were introduced. With STATX_MULTIGRAIN_TS we return full precision timestamp as stored in the inode. Then NFS in fh_fill_pre_attrs() and fh_fill_post_attrs() needs to make sure STATX_MULTIGRAIN_TS is set when calling vfs_getattr() to get multigrain time. I agree nfsd may now be presenting slightly different timestamps than user is able to see with stat(2) directly on the filesystem. But is that a problem? Essentially it is a similar solution as the mgtime mount option but now sysadmin doesn't have to decide on filesystem mount how to report timestamps but the stat caller knowingly opts into possibly inconsistent (among files) but high precision timestamps. And in the particular NFS usecase where stat is called all the time anyway, timestamps will likely even be consistent among files. Honza -- Jan Kara SUSE Labs, CR ______________________________________________________ Linux MTD discussion mailing list http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-mtd/