Messages in this thread | | | From | Johannes Thumshirn <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] btrfs: RAID stripe tree updates | Date | Wed, 4 Oct 2023 08:36:50 +0000 |
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On 04.10.23 10:26, Qu Wenruo wrote: > > > On 2023/10/4 18:26, Johannes Thumshirn wrote: >> This batch of RST updates contains the on-disk format changes Qu >> suggested. It drastically simplifies the write and path, especially for >> RAID10. >> >> Instead of recording all strides of a striped RAID into one stripe tree >> entry, we create multiple entries per stride. This allows us to remove the >> length in the stride as we can use the length from the key. Using this >> method RAID10 becomes RAID1 and RAID0 becomes single from the point of >> view of the stripe tree. > > Great the idea can simplify the code. > So I'm very glad I can provide some help on RST. > > Although one concern is about the compatibility, but I guess since rst > is still covered under experimental flags for progs, we can more or less > ignore the compatibility for now?
They're only in misc-next by now so I hope we can.
> The other concern is, how would those patches be merged, would David > just fold them, and we can check the misc-next, or there would be > another branch for us to view the code?
I was under the impression, David is going to fold them in.
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