The algorithm for laying out new directories was devised in the 1980s
and markedly improved the performance of the filesystem. In those days
large disks had at most 100 cylinder groups and often as few as 10-20.
Modern multi-terrabyte disks have thousands of cylinder groups. The
original algorithm does not handle these large sizes well. This change
attempts to expand the scope of the original algorithm to work well
with these much larger disks while still retaining the properties
of the original algorithm for small disks.
The filesystem implementation is divided into policy routines and
implementation routines. The policy routines can be changed in any
way desired without risk of corrupting the filesystem. The policy
requests are handled by the implementation layer. If the policy
asks for an available resource, it is granted. But if it asks for
an already in-use resource, then the implementation will provide
an available one nearby the request. Thus it is impossible for a
policy to double allocate. This change is limited to the policy
implementation.
This change updates the ffs_dirpref() routine which is responsible
for selecting the cylinder group into which a new directory should
be placed. If we are near the root of the filesystem we aim to
spread them out as much as possible. As we descend deeper from the
root we cluster them closer together around their parent as we
expect them to be more closely interactive. Higher-level directories
like usr/src/sys and usr/src/bin should be separated while the
directories in these areas are more likely to be accessed together
so should be closer. And directories within commands or kernel
subsystems should be closer still.
We pick a range of cylinder groups around the cylinder group of the
directory in which we are being created. The size of the range for
our search is based on our depth from the root of our filesystem.
We then probe that range based on how many directories are already
present. The first new directory is at 1/2 (middle) of the range;
the second is in the first 1/4 of the range, then at 3/4, 1/8, 3/8,
5/8, 7/8, 1/16, 3/16, 5/16, etc.
It is desirable to store the depth of a directory in its on-disk
inode so that it is available when we need it. We add a new field
di_dirdepth to track the depth of each directory. Because there are
few spare fields left in the inode, we choose to share an existing
field in the inode rather than having one of our own. Specifically
we create a union with the di_freelink field. The di_freelink field
is used to track inodes that have been unlinked but remain referenced.
It is not needed until a rmdir(2) operation has been done on a
directory. At that point, the directory has no contents and even
if it is kept active as a current directory is no longer able to
have any new directories or files created in it. Thus the use of
di_dirdepth and di_freelink will never coincide.
Reported by: Timo Voelker
Reviewed by: kib
Tested by: Peter Holm
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D39246
making fsck_ffs(8) run faster, there should be no functional change.
The original fsck_ffs(8) had its own disk I/O management system.
When gjournal(8) was added to FreeBSD 7, code was added to fsck_ffs(8)
to do the necessary gjournal rollback. Rather than use the existing
fsck_ffs(8) disk I/O system, it wrote its own from scratch. Similarly
when journalled soft updates were added in FreeBSD 9, code was added
to fsck_ffs(8) to do the necessary journal rollback. And once again,
rather than using either of the existing fsck_ffs(8) disk I/O
systems, it wrote its own from scratch. Lastly the fsdb(8) utility
uses the fsck_ffs(8) disk I/O management system. In preparation for
making the changes necessary to enable snapshots to be taken when
using journalled soft updates, it was necessary to have a single
disk I/O system used by all the various subsystems in fsck_ffs(8).
This commit merges the functionality required by all the different
subsystems into a single disk I/O system that supports all of their
needs. In so doing it picks up optimizations from each of them
with the results that each of the subsystems does fewer reads and
writes than it did with its own customized I/O system. It also
greatly simplifies making changes to fsck_ffs(8) since everything
goes through a single place. For example the ginode() function
fetches an inode from the disk. When inode check hashes were added,
they previously had to be checked in the code implementing inode
fetch in each of the three different disk I/O systems. Now they
need only be checked in ginode().
Tested by: Peter Holm
Sponsored by: Netflix
Mainly focus on files that use BSD 3-Clause license.
The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.
Special thanks to Wind River for providing access to "The Duke of
Highlander" tool: an older (2014) run over FreeBSD tree was useful as a
starting point.
Renumber cluase 4 to 3, per what everybody else did when BSD granted
them permission to remove clause 3. My insistance on keeping the same
numbering for legal reasons is too pedantic, so give up on that point.
Submitted by: Jan Schaumann <jschauma@stevens.edu>
Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/pull/96
count of zero and instead encode this information in the inode state.
Pass 4 performed a linear search of this list for each inode in
the file system, which performs poorly if the list is long.
Reviewed by: sam & keramida (an earlier version of the patch), mckusick
MFC after: 1 month
These were mainly missing casts or wrong format strings in printf
statements, but there were also missing includes, unused variables,
functions and arguments.
The choice of `long' vs `int' still seems almost random in a lot
of places though.
affect current systems until fsck is modified to use these new
facilities. To try out this change, set the fsck passno to zero
in /etc/fstab to cause the filesystem to be mounted without running
fsck, then run `fsck_ffs -p -B <filesystem>' after the system has
been brought up multiuser to run a background cleanup on <filesystem>.
Note that the <filesystem> in question must have soft updates enabled.
a SIGINFO (normally via Ctrl-T), a line will be output indicating
the current phase number and progress information relevant to the
current phase.
Approved by: mckusick
Submitted by: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@McKusick.COM>
Obtained from: Mckusick, BSDI and a host of others
This exactly matches Kirks sources imported under the
Tag MCKUSICK2. These are as supplied by kirk with one small
change needed to compile under freeBSD.
Some FreeBSD patches will be added back, though many have been
added to Kirk's sources already.
