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From: Austin S Hemmelgarn <ahferroin7@gmail.com>
To: "linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org" <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] btrfs: Allow forced conversion of metadata to dup profile on, multiple devices
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 09:23:17 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <530DF8D5.7010808@gmail.com> (raw)

Currently, btrfs balance start fails when trying to convert metadata or
system chunks to dup profile on filesystems with multiple devices.  This
requires that a conversion from a multi-device filesystem to a single
device filesystem use the following methodology:
    1. btrfs balance start -dconvert=single -mconvert=single \
       -sconvert=single -f /
    2. btrfs device delete / /dev/sdx
    3. btrfs balance start -mconvert=dup -sconvert=dup /
This results in a period of time (possibly very long if the devices are
big) where you don't have the protection guarantees of multiple copies
of metadata chunks.

After applying this patch, one can instead use the following methodology
for conversion from a multi-device filesystem to a single device
filesystem:
    1. btrfs balance start -dconvert=single -mconvert=dup \
       -sconvert=dup -f /
    2. btrfs device delete / /dev/sdx
This greatly reduces the chances of the operation causing data loss due
to a read error during the device delete.

Signed-off-by: Austin S. Hemmelgarn <ahferroin7@gmail.com>
---
 fs/btrfs/volumes.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
index 07629e9..38a9522 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
@@ -3152,10 +3152,8 @@ int btrfs_balance(struct btrfs_balance_control *bctl,
 		num_devices--;
 	}
 	btrfs_dev_replace_unlock(&fs_info->dev_replace);
-	allowed = BTRFS_AVAIL_ALLOC_BIT_SINGLE;
-	if (num_devices == 1)
-		allowed |= BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_DUP;
-	else if (num_devices > 1)
+	allowed = BTRFS_AVAIL_ALLOC_BIT_SINGLE | BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_DUP;
+	if (num_devices > 1)
 		allowed |= (BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_RAID0 | BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_RAID1);
 	if (num_devices > 2)
 		allowed |= BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_RAID5;
@@ -3221,6 +3219,21 @@ int btrfs_balance(struct btrfs_balance_control *bctl,
 				goto out;
 			}
 		}
+		if (((bctl->sys.flags & BTRFS_BALANCE_ARGS_CONVERT) &&
+		    (bctl->sys.target & ~BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_DUP) ||
+		    (bctl->meta.flags & BTRFS_BALANCE_ARGS_CONVERT) &&
+		    (bctl->meta.target & ~BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_DUP)) &&
+		    (num_devs > 1)) {
+			if (bctl->flags & BTRFS_BALANCE_FORCE) {
+				btrfs_info(fs_info, "force conversion of metadata "
+					   "to dup profile on multiple devices");
+			} else {
+				btrfs_err(fs_info, "balance will reduce metadata "
+					  "integrity, use force if you want this");
+				ret = -EINVAL;
+				goto out;
+			}
+		}
 	} while (read_seqretry(&fs_info->profiles_lock, seq));
 
 	if (bctl->sys.flags & BTRFS_BALANCE_ARGS_CONVERT) {

             reply	other threads:[~2014-02-26 14:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-26 14:23 Austin S Hemmelgarn [this message]
2014-03-07 18:05 ` [PATCH] btrfs: Allow forced conversion of metadata to dup profile on, multiple devices Josef Bacik
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-02-19 16:10 [PATCH] btrfs: Allow forced conversion of metadata to dup profile on " Austin S Hemmelgarn
2014-02-20 16:57 ` David Sterba
2014-02-24 13:37   ` Ilya Dryomov
2014-02-24 13:44     ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2014-02-24 14:12       ` Ilya Dryomov
2014-02-24 14:40         ` Austin S Hemmelgarn

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