On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 07:19:50PM -0700, George Mitchell wrote: > On 06/02/2013 06:28 PM, Liu Bo wrote: > >On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 07:40:52AM -0700, George Mitchell wrote: > >>I am seeing massive journal corruptions that seem to be unique to > >>btrfs and I am suspecting that cow might be causing them. My > >>bandaid fix for this will be to mark the /var filesystem "nodatacow" > >>at boot. But I am wondering if their is any way to flag a > >>particular directory as "nodatacow" outside of the mount process. I > >>would like to be able to mark /var/log/journal as "nodatacow" for > >>example, without having to declare it a subvolume and mount it > >>separately. > >Hi George, > > > >We actually have per-file/directory nodatacow :) > > > >But please note if you set nodatacow on the particular directory, only > >new-created or zero-size files in the directory can follow the nocow rule. > > > >'chattr' in the latest e2fsprogs can fit your requirements, > ># chattr +C /var/log/journal > > > >Also, what kind of massive journal corruptions? Does it look like a > >btrfs specific bug? > > > >thanks, > >liubo > > > > > I am also assuming that all directories later created under > /var/log/journal will inherit the nodatacow profile? Yes, indeed. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
