There is a new feature 'uninitialized block groups' in ext4.
Block and inode bitmaps in uninitialized block groups are
uninitialized. This confuses the converter. The fix is call
ext2fs_new_inode for each block group at open time. It set
up uninitialized block and inode bitmaps appropriately.
Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng <zheng.yan@oracle.com>
This patch updates the ext3 to btrfs converter for the new
disk format. This mainly involves changing the convert's
data relocation and free space management code. This patch
also ports some functions from kernel module to btrfs-progs.
Thank you,
Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng <zheng.yan@oracle.com>
Btrfs stores checksums for each data block. Until now, they have
been stored in the subvolume trees, indexed by the inode that is
referencing the data block. This means that when we read the inode,
we've probably read in at least some checksums as well.
But, this has a few problems:
* The checksums are indexed by logical offset in the file. When
compression is on, this means we have to do the expensive checksumming
on the uncompressed data. It would be faster if we could checksum
the compressed data instead.
* If we implement encryption, we'll be checksumming the plain text and
storing that on disk. This is significantly less secure.
* For either compression or encryption, we have to get the plain text
back before we can verify the checksum as correct. This makes the raid
layer balancing and extent moving much more expensive.
* It makes the front end caching code more complex, as we have touch
the subvolume and inodes as we cache extents.
* There is potentitally one copy of the checksum in each subvolume
referencing an extent.
The solution used here is to store the extent checksums in a dedicated
tree. This allows us to index the checksums by phyiscal extent
start and length. It means:
* The checksum is against the data stored on disk, after any compression
or encryption is done.
* The checksum is stored in a central location, and can be verified without
following back references, or reading inodes.
This makes compression significantly faster by reducing the amount of
data that needs to be checksummed. It will also allow much faster
raid management code in general.
The checksums are indexed by a key with a fixed objectid (a magic value
in ctree.h) and offset set to the starting byte of the extent. This
allows us to copy the checksum items into the fsync log tree directly (or
any other tree), without having to invent a second format for them.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
This patch makes the back reference system to explicit record the
location of parent node for all types of extents. The location of
parent node is placed into the offset field of backref key. Every
time a tree block is balanced, the back references for the affected
lower level extents are updated.
This patch corrects open-coded inode_map iteration, which happens to be
illegal in new libext2fs due to inode_map being private, causing warning,
which becomes a compile error.
This patch add ext2_inode.i_size_high into account when calculating regular
file's size in btrfs-convert, which makes it deal with large files bigger than
4GB properly.
This patch improves converter's allocator and fixes a bug in data relocation
function. The new allocator caches free blocks as Btrfs's default allocator.
In testing here, the user CPU time reduced to half of the original when
checksum and small file packing was disabled. This patch also enlarges the
size of block groups created by the converter.
The main changes in this patch are adding chunk handing and data relocation
ability. In the last step of conversion, the converter relocates data in system
chunk and move chunk tree into system chunk. In the rollback process, the
converter remove chunk tree from system chunk and copy data back.
Regards
YZ
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Hello,
This patch fixes two newly found bugs in the converter. The important
one is in create_ext2_image, sub-volume root directory's size not
properly updated after creating the ext2 image file. The other one is
a small bug in xattr support codes. In addition to the fixes, this
patch moves the 'if mounted' check to main() function.
Regards
YZ
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This patch adds rollback support for the converter, the converter can
roll back a conversion if the image file haven't been modified. In
addition, I rearrange some codes in convert.c and add a few comments.
Yan Zheng
Chris Mason
Radoslaw Szkodzinski
Zhu
Yan Zheng