Commit 30b3688e authored by Qu Wenruo's avatar Qu Wenruo Committed by David Sterba
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btrfs: Add overview of device replace



The overview of btrfs dev-replace.  It mentions some corner cases caused
by the write duplication and scrub based data copy.

Reviewed-by: default avatarAnand Jain <anand.jain@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarQu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
[ adjust wording ]
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
parent 16fbf79b
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#include "dev-replace.h"
#include "sysfs.h"

/*
 * Device replace overview
 *
 * [Objective]
 * To copy all extents (both new and on-disk) from source device to target
 * device, while still keeping the filesystem read-write.
 *
 * [Method]
 * There are two main methods involved:
 *
 * - Write duplication
 *
 *   All new writes will be written to both target and source devices, so even
 *   if replace gets canceled, sources device still contans up-to-date data.
 *
 *   Location:		handle_ops_on_dev_replace() from __btrfs_map_block()
 *   Start:		btrfs_dev_replace_start()
 *   End:		btrfs_dev_replace_finishing()
 *   Content:		Latest data/metadata
 *
 * - Copy existing extents
 *
 *   This happens by re-using scrub facility, as scrub also iterates through
 *   existing extents from commit root.
 *
 *   Location:		scrub_write_block_to_dev_replace() from
 *   			scrub_block_complete()
 *   Content:		Data/meta from commit root.
 *
 * Due to the content difference, we need to avoid nocow write when dev-replace
 * is happening.  This is done by marking the block group read-only and waiting
 * for NOCOW writes.
 *
 * After replace is done, the finishing part is done by swapping the target and
 * source devices.
 *
 *   Location:		btrfs_dev_replace_update_device_in_mapping_tree() from
 *   			btrfs_dev_replace_finishing()
 */

static int btrfs_dev_replace_finishing(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info,
				       int scrub_ret);
static void btrfs_dev_replace_update_device_in_mapping_tree(