On 21/06/17 06:48, Chris Murphy wrote:
Another possibility is to ensure a new write is written to a new*not*
full stripe, i.e. dynamic stripe size. So if the modification is a 50K
file on a 4 disk raid5; instead of writing 3 64K data strips + 1 64K
parity strip (a full stripe write); write out 1 64K data strip + 1 64K
parity strip. In effect, a 4 disk raid5 would quickly get not just 3
data + 1 parity strip Btrfs block groups; but 1 data + 1 parity, and 2
data + 1 parity chunks, and direct those write to the proper chunk
based on size. Anyway that's beyond my ability to assess how much
allocator work that is. Balance I'd expect to rewrite everything to
max data strips possible; the optimization would only apply to normal
operation COW.
This will make some filesystems mostly RAID1, negating all space savings
of RAID5, won't it?
Isn't it easier to recalculate parity block based using previous state
of two rewritten strips, parity and data? I don't understand all
performance implications, but it might scale better with number of devices.
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With Best Regards,
Marat Khalili
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