Hi,

   Great to see something addressing the write hole at last.

On Tue, Aug 01, 2017 at 10:14:23AM -0600, Liu Bo wrote:
> This aims to fix write hole issue on btrfs raid5/6 setup by adding a
> separate disk as a journal (aka raid5/6 log), so that after unclean
> shutdown we can make sure data and parity are consistent on the raid
> array by replaying the journal.

   What's the behaviour of the FS if the log device dies during use?

   Hugo.

> The idea and the code are similar to the write-through mode of md
> raid5-cache, so ppl(partial parity log) is also feasible to implement.
> (If you've been familiar with md, you may find this patch set is
> boring to read...)
> 
> Patch 1-3 are about adding a log disk, patch 5-8 are the main part of
> the implementation, the rest patches are improvements and bugfixes,
> eg. readahead for recovery, checksum.
> 
> Two btrfs-progs patches are required to play with this patch set, one
> is to enhance 'btrfs device add' to add a disk as raid5/6 log with the
> option '-L', the other is to teach 'btrfs-show-super' to show
> %journal_tail.
> 
> This is currently based on 4.12-rc3.
> 
> The patch set is tagged with RFC, and comments are always welcome,
> thanks.
> 
> Known limitations:
> - Deleting a log device is not implemented yet.
> 
> 
> Liu Bo (14):
>   Btrfs: raid56: add raid56 log via add_dev v2 ioctl
>   Btrfs: raid56: do not allocate chunk on raid56 log
>   Btrfs: raid56: detect raid56 log on mount
>   Btrfs: raid56: add verbose debug
>   Btrfs: raid56: add stripe log for raid5/6
>   Btrfs: raid56: add reclaim support
>   Btrfs: raid56: load r5log
>   Btrfs: raid56: log recovery
>   Btrfs: raid56: add readahead for recovery
>   Btrfs: raid56: use the readahead helper to get page
>   Btrfs: raid56: add csum support
>   Btrfs: raid56: fix error handling while adding a log device
>   Btrfs: raid56: initialize raid5/6 log after adding it
>   Btrfs: raid56: maintain IO order on raid5/6 log
> 
>  fs/btrfs/ctree.h                |   16 +-
>  fs/btrfs/disk-io.c              |   16 +
>  fs/btrfs/ioctl.c                |   48 +-
>  fs/btrfs/raid56.c               | 1429 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  fs/btrfs/raid56.h               |   82 +++
>  fs/btrfs/transaction.c          |    2 +
>  fs/btrfs/volumes.c              |   56 +-
>  fs/btrfs/volumes.h              |    7 +-
>  include/uapi/linux/btrfs.h      |    3 +
>  include/uapi/linux/btrfs_tree.h |    4 +
>  10 files changed, 1487 insertions(+), 176 deletions(-)
> 

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