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Subject: [opensuse-factory] Introduce btrfsmaintenance package to Factory
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2014 17:40:37 +0200
From: David Sterba <…@suse.cz>
To: opensuse-factory@opensuse.org
Hi,
let me introduce a new package that supplements the btrfs filesystem and aims
to automate a few maintenance tasks. This means the scrub, balance, trim or
defragmentation. The package comes from SLE12 where btrfs is going to be the
default filesystem as well.
Each of the tasks can be turned on/off and configured independently. The
default config values were selected to fit the default installation profile.
-
scrub - go through all medatada/data and verify the checksums, default period
is one month -
balance - the balance command can do a lot of things, in general moves data
around in big chunks, here we use it to reclaim back the space of the
underused chunks so it can be allocated again according to current needs
The point is to prevent some corner cases where it’s not possible to eg.
allocate new metadata chunks because the whole device space is reserved for all
the chunks, although the total space occupied is smaller and the allocation
should succeed.
-
trim - run TRIM on the filesystem using the ‘fstrim’ utility, makes sense for
SSD devices. -
defrag - run defrag on configured directories. This is for convenience and
not necessary.
There’s a separate defragmentation task that happens automatically and
defragments only the RPM database files in /var/lib/rpm. This is done via a
zypper plugin and the defrag pass triggers at the end of the installation.
This improves reading the RPM databases later, but the installation process
fragments the files very quickly so it’s not likely to bring a significant
speedup here.
Cron takes care of periodic execution of the scripts, but they can be run any
time directly from /usr/share/btrfs/maintenance/, respecting the configured
values in /etc/sysconfig/btrfsmaintenance.
If the period is changed manually, the cron symlinks have to be refreshed, use
“systemctl restart btrfsmaintenance-refresh” (or the
“rcbtrfsmaintenance-refresh” shortcut). Changing the period via yast2 sysconfig
editor triggers the refresh automatically.
The project lives in obs://filesystems/btrfsmaintenance and I’m going to submit
it to Factory.
I’d like to ask volunteers to give it some testing. Feedback is welcome.
Thanks,
David
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