Btrfs: Check metadata redundancy on balance
PATCH 1/1 Btrfs: Check metadata redundancy on balance
Resending, as I received no comments on previous submission.
Currently BTRFS allows you to make bad choices of data and metadata levels. For example -d raid1 -m raid0 means you can only use half your total disk space, but will loose everything if 1 disk fails. It should give a warning in these cases.
This patch is a follow up to
[PATCH v2] btrfs-progs: check metadata redundancy
in order to cover the case of using balance to convert to such a set of raid levels.
A simple example to hit this is to create a single device fs, which will default to single:dup, then to add a second device and attempt to convert to raid1 with the command
btrfs balance start -dconvert=raid1 /mnt
this will result in a filesystem with raid1:dup, which will not survive the loss of one drive. I personally don't see why the tools should allow this, but in the previous thread a warning was considered sufficient.
From: Sam Tygier <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2015 18:13:06 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Btrfs: Check metadata redundancy on balance
When converting a filesystem via balance check that metadata mode is at least as redundant as the data mode. For example give warning when:
-dconvert=raid1 -mconvert=single
--- fs/btrfs/volumes.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)
fs/btrfs/volumes.c +24 -0
@@ -3454,6 +3454,24 @@ static void __cancel_balance(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info)atomic_set (&fs_info->mutually_exclusive_operation_running,0 ); } +static int group_profile_max_safe_loss (u64 flag) +{ +switch (flag &BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_PROFILE_MASK ) { +case 0 :/* single */ +case BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_DUP : +case BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_RAID0 : +return 0 ; +case BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_RAID1 : +case BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_RAID5 : +case BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_RAID10 : +return 1 ; +case BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_RAID6 : +return 2 ; +default : +return -1 ; + } +} +/* * Should be called with both balance and volume mutexes held */
@@ -3572,6 +3590,12 @@ int btrfs_balance(struct btrfs_balance_control *bctl, } }while (read_seqretry (&fs_info->profiles_lock, seq)); +if (group_profile_max_safe_loss (bctl->meta.target) < +group_profile_max_safe_loss (bctl->data.target)){ +btrfs_info (fs_info, +"Warning: metatdata has lower redundancy than data\n" ); + } +if (bctl->sys.flags &BTRFS_BALANCE_ARGS_CONVERT ) {int num_tolerated_disk_barrier_failures;u64 target = bctl->sys.target;
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