It was recommended that I resend after the merge window. No
changes since last version.
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.
Signed-off-by: Sam Tygier <samtygier@xxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Sam Tygier <samtygier@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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(+)
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
index fbe7c10..a0ce1f7 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
@@ -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;
--
2.4.3
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