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Superblock (and its copies) is the only data structure in btrfs which has a fixed location on a device. Since we cannot overwrite in a sequential write required zone, we cannot place superblock in the zone. One easy solution is limiting superblock and copies to be placed only in conventional zones. However, this method has two downsides: one is reduced number of superblock copies. The location of the second copy of superblock is 256GB, which is in a sequential write required zone on typical devices in the market today. So, the number of superblock and copies is limited to be two. Second downside is that we cannot support devices which have no conventional zones at all. To solve these two problems, we employ superblock log writing. It uses two adjacent zones as a circular buffer to write updated superblocks. Once the first zone is filled up, start writing into the second one. Then, when both zones are filled up and before starting to write to the first zone again, it reset the first zone. We can determine the position of the latest superblock by reading write pointer information from a device. One corner case is when both zones are full. For this situation, we read out the last superblock of each zone, and compare them to determine which zone is older. The following zones are reserved as the circular buffer on ZONED btrfs. - The primary superblock: zones 0 and 1 - The first copy: zones 16 and 17 - The second copy: zones 1024 or zone at 256GB which is minimum, and next to it If these reserved zones are conventional, superblock is written fixed at the start of the zone without logging. Signed-off-by: Naohiro Aota <naohiro.aota@wdc.com> Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> |
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.