From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>,
linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/11] xfs: introduce an always_cow mode
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2018 07:27:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181221062727.GA31373@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181220210309.GE4205@dastard>
On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 08:03:09AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> Yes, I know it's not persistent, but do we care for always_cow mode?
> Preallocation to prevent enospc is done just before the data is
> written, and if we put it in the COW fork then it will mostly just
> work and behave as expected for preventing ENOSPC on subsequent
> writes. Preallocation to control data layout is largely irrelevant
> to always_cow mode, so it really makes no difference to us if the
> preallocation disappears when the inode is cycled out of cache....
I'll have to see if we can get the semantics for the right.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-12-21 6:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-03 22:24 COW improvements and always_cow support V3 Christoph Hellwig
2018-12-03 22:24 ` [PATCH 01/11] xfs: remove xfs_trim_extent_eof Christoph Hellwig
2018-12-18 21:45 ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-12-03 22:24 ` [PATCH 02/11] xfs: remove the io_type field from the writeback context and ioend Christoph Hellwig
2018-12-18 21:45 ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-12-03 22:24 ` [PATCH 03/11] xfs: remove the s_maxbytes checks in xfs_map_blocks Christoph Hellwig
2018-12-18 22:31 ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-12-03 22:24 ` [PATCH 04/11] xfs: rework the truncate race handling in the writeback path Christoph Hellwig
2018-12-18 23:03 ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-12-19 19:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-12-03 22:24 ` [PATCH 05/11] xfs: make xfs_bmbt_to_iomap more useful Christoph Hellwig
2018-12-18 21:46 ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-12-03 22:24 ` [PATCH 06/11] xfs: don't use delalloc extents for COW on files with extsize hints Christoph Hellwig
2018-12-18 21:44 ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-12-19 19:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-12-19 19:32 ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-12-03 22:24 ` [PATCH 07/11] xfs: also truncate holes covered by COW blocks Christoph Hellwig
2018-12-18 23:39 ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-12-03 22:25 ` [PATCH 08/11] xfs: merge COW handling into xfs_file_iomap_begin_delay Christoph Hellwig
2018-12-18 23:36 ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-12-19 19:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-12-19 20:20 ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-12-03 22:25 ` [PATCH 09/11] xfs: report IOMAP_F_SHARED from xfs_file_iomap_begin_delay Christoph Hellwig
2018-12-18 23:38 ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-12-19 19:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-12-03 22:25 ` [PATCH 10/11] xfs: make COW fork unwritten extent conversions more robust Christoph Hellwig
2018-12-18 22:22 ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-12-19 19:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-12-03 22:25 ` [PATCH 11/11] xfs: introduce an always_cow mode Christoph Hellwig
2018-12-18 23:24 ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-12-19 19:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-12-19 22:43 ` Dave Chinner
2018-12-20 7:07 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-12-20 21:03 ` Dave Chinner
2018-12-21 6:27 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2018-12-06 1:05 ` COW improvements and always_cow support V3 Darrick J. Wong
2018-12-06 4:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-12-06 16:32 ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-12-06 20:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-12-17 17:59 ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-12-18 18:05 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-12-19 0:44 ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-12-20 7:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-12-20 22:09 ` Darrick J. Wong
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-01-17 16:36 COW improvements and always_cow support V4 Christoph Hellwig
2019-01-17 16:36 ` [PATCH 11/11] xfs: introduce an always_cow mode Christoph Hellwig
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