Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Add options to zfs redundant_metadata property #14105

Merged
merged 1 commit into from
Nov 1, 2022

Conversation

behlendorf
Copy link
Contributor

Motivation and Context

Backport of #13680 for the 2.1.7 staging branch. The primary motivation for including this in the 2.1.x release series is to put in place the logic to gracefully handle any unknown property indexes.

Description

Currently, additional/extra copies are created for metadata in addition to the redundancy provided by the pool(mirror/raidz/draid), due to this 2 times more space is utilized per inode and this decreases the total number of inodes that can be created in the filesystem. By setting redundant_metadata to none, no additional copies of metadata are created, hence can reduce the space consumed by the additional metadata copies and increase the total number of inodes that can be created in the filesystem. Additionally, this can improve file create performance due to the reduced amount of metadata which needs to be written.

How Has This Been Tested?

Directly backported from the master branch.

Types of changes

  • Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
  • New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
  • Performance enhancement (non-breaking change which improves efficiency)
  • Code cleanup (non-breaking change which makes code smaller or more readable)
  • Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)
  • Library ABI change (libzfs, libzfs_core, libnvpair, libuutil and libzfsbootenv)
  • Documentation (a change to man pages or other documentation)

Checklist:

Currently, additional/extra copies are created for metadata in
addition to the redundancy provided by the pool(mirror/raidz/draid),
due to this 2 times more space is utilized per inode and this decreases
the total number of inodes that can be created in the filesystem. By
setting redundant_metadata to none, no additional copies of metadata
are created, hence can reduce the space consumed by the additional
metadata copies and increase the total number of inodes that can be
created in the filesystem.  Additionally, this can improve file create
performance due to the reduced amount of metadata which needs
to be written.

Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Dipak Ghosh <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Akash B <[email protected]>
Closes openzfs#13680
@behlendorf behlendorf added the Status: Code Review Needed Ready for review and testing label Oct 28, 2022
@behlendorf behlendorf merged commit 7ac732b into openzfs:zfs-2.1.7-staging Nov 1, 2022
@behlendorf behlendorf added Status: Accepted Ready to integrate (reviewed, tested) and removed Status: Code Review Needed Ready for review and testing labels Nov 1, 2022
Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment
Labels
Status: Accepted Ready to integrate (reviewed, tested)
Projects
None yet
Development

Successfully merging this pull request may close these issues.

3 participants