Re: lazytime mount option—no support in Btrfs

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waxhead - 18.08.18, 22:45:
> Adam Hunt wrote:
> > Back in 2014 Ted Tso introduced the lazytime mount option for ext4
> > and shortly thereafter a more generic VFS implementation which was
> > then merged into mainline. His early patches included support for
> > Btrfs but those changes were removed prior to the feature being
> > merged. His> 
> > changelog includes the following note about the removal:
> >    - Per Christoph's suggestion, drop support for btrfs and xfs for
> >    now,
> >    
> >      issues with how btrfs and xfs handle dirty inode tracking.  We
> >      can add btrfs and xfs support back later or at the end of this
> >      series if we want to revisit this decision.
> > 
> > My reading of the current mainline shows that Btrfs still lacks any
> > support for lazytime. Has any thought been given to adding support
> > for lazytime to Btrfs?
[…]
> Is there any new regarding this?

I´d like to know whether there is any news about this as well.

If I understand it correctly this could even help BTRFS performance a 
lot cause it is COW´ing metadata.

Thanks,
-- 
Martin





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