From: "Hendrik Friedel" <hendrik@friedels.name>
To: "Btrfs BTRFS" <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: raid 5/6 - is this implemented?
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2020 19:41:11 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <emd2373acd-6dfe-4317-bdf7-402cb909bc3f@desktop-g0r648m> (raw)
Hello,
I stumbled upon this:
https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org/msg91938.html
<<This is why scrub after a crash or powerloss with raid56 is important,
while the array is still whole (not degraded). The two problems with
that are:
a) the scrub isn't initiated automatically, nor is it obvious to the
user it's necessary
b) the scrub can take a long time, Btrfs has no partial scrubbing.
Wheras mdadm arrays offer a write intent bitmap to know what blocks to
partially scrub, and to trigger it automatically following a crash or
powerloss.
It seems Btrfs already has enough on-disk metadata to infer a
functional equivalent to the write intent bitmap, via transid. Just
scrub the last ~50 generations the next time it's mounted. Either do
this every time a Btrfs raid56 is mounted. Or create some flag that
allows Btrfs to know if the filesystem was not cleanly shutdown. >>
Has this been implemented in the meantime? If not: Are there any plans
to?
Regards,
Hendrik
next reply other threads:[~2020-11-06 19:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-06 19:41 Hendrik Friedel [this message]
2020-11-07 1:43 ` raid 5/6 - is this implemented? Zygo Blaxell
2020-11-11 17:06 ` Re[2]: " Hendrik Friedel
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