The current space map encoding has the following disadvantages:
[1] Assuming 512 sector size each entry can represent at most 16MB for a segment.
This makes the encoding very inefficient for large regions of space.
[2] As vdev-wide space maps have started to be used by new features (i.e.
device removal, zpool checkpoint) we've started imposing limits in the
vdevs that can be used with them based on the maximum addressable offset
(currently 64PB for a top-level vdev).
The new remains backwards compatible with the old one. The introduced
two-word entry format, besides extending the limits imposed by the single-entry
layout, also includes a vdev field and some extra padding after its prefix.
The extra padding after the prefix should is reserved for future usage (e.g.
new prefixes for future encodings or new fields for flags). The new vdev field
not only makes the space maps more self-descriptive, but also opens the doors
for pool-wide space maps.
One final important note is that the number of bits used for vdevs is reduced
to 24 bits for blkptrs. That was decided as we don't know of any setups that
use more than 16M vdevs for the time being and
we wanted to fit the vdev field in the space map. In addition that gives us
some extra bits in dva_t.
illumos/illumos-gate@17f11284b4
Reviewed by: Matt Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: George Wilson <gwilson@zfsmail.com>
Approved by: Gordon Ross <gwr@nexenta.com>
Author: Serapheim Dimitropoulos <serapheim@delphix.com>
illumos/illumos-gate@8671400134
The idea of Storage Pool Checkpoint (aka zpool checkpoint) deals with
exactly that. It can be thought of as a “pool-wide snapshot” (or a
variation of extreme rewind that doesn’t corrupt your data). It remembers
the entire state of the pool at the point that it was taken and the user
can revert back to it later or discard it. Its generic use case is an
administrator that is about to perform a set of destructive actions to ZFS
as part of a critical procedure. She takes a checkpoint of the pool before
performing the actions, then rewinds back to it if one of them fails or puts
the pool into an unexpected state. Otherwise, she discards it. With the
assumption that no one else is making modifications to ZFS, she basically
wraps all these actions into a “high-level transaction”.
Reviewed by: Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: John Kennedy <john.kennedy@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Dan Kimmel <dan.kimmel@delphix.com>
Approved by: Richard Lowe <richlowe@richlowe.net>
Author: Serapheim Dimitropoulos <serapheim.dimitro@delphix.com>
illumos/illumos-gate@5cabbc6b49https://www.illumos.org/issues/7614:
This project allows top-level vdevs to be removed from the storage pool with
“zpool remove”, reducing the total amount of storage in the pool. This
operation copies all allocated regions of the device to be removed onto other
devices, recording the mapping from old to new location. After the removal is
complete, read and free operations to the removed (now “indirect”) vdev must
be remapped and performed at the new location on disk. The indirect mapping
table is kept in memory whenever the pool is loaded, so there is minimal
performance overhead when doing operations on the indirect vdev.
The size of the in-memory mapping table will be reduced when its entries
become “obsolete” because they are no longer used by any block pointers in
the pool. An entry becomes obsolete when all the blocks that use it are
freed. An entry can also become obsolete when all the snapshots that
reference it are deleted, and the block pointers that reference it have been
“remapped” in all filesystems/zvols (and clones). Whenever an indirect block
is written, all the block pointers in it will be “remapped” to their new
(concrete) locations if possible. This process can be accelerated by using
the “zfs remap” command to proactively rewrite all indirect blocks that
reference indirect (removed) vdevs.
Note that when a device is removed, we do not verify the checksum of the data
that is copied. This makes the process much faster, but if it were used on
redundant vdevs (i.e. mirror or raidz vdevs), it would be possible to copy
the wrong data, when we have the correct data on e.g. the other side of the
mirror. Therefore, mirror and raidz devices can not be removed.
Reviewed by: Alex Reece <alex@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: George Wilson <george.wilson@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: John Kennedy <john.kennedy@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Prakash Surya <prakash.surya@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Richard Laager <rlaager@wiktel.com>
Reviewed by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Approved by: Garrett D'Amore <garrett@damore.org>
Author: Prashanth Sreenivasa <pks@delphix.com>
Reviewed by Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Reviewed by Saso Kiselkov <skiselkov.ml@gmail.com>
Approved by: Christopher Siden <christopher.siden@delphix.com>
illumos/illumos-gate@b8289d24d8
4913 zfs release should not be subject to space checks
Reviewed by: Adam Leventhal <ahl@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Max Grossman <max.grossman@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: George Wilson <george.wilson@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Christopher Siden <christopher.siden@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Dan McDonald <danmcd@omniti.com>
Approved by: Dan McDonald <danmcd@omniti.com>
illumos/illumos-dist@5d7b4d438c
4102 space_maps should store more information about themselves
4103 space map object blocksize should be increased
4104 ::spa_space no longer works
4105 removing a mirrored log device results in a leaked object
4106 asynchronously load metaslab
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