)]}' { "log": [ { "commit": "cc8394d86f045b86ff303d3c9e4ce47d97148951", "tree": "ad37143c9709f523fb2ca9fc5ac9de75e9a011f9", "parents": [ "a24c25696b7133dd534d7a9436e576af79d9ce3b" ], "author": { "name": "Joe Thornber", "email": "ejt@redhat.com", "time": "Sun Jun 03 00:30:01 2012 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Alasdair G Kergon", "email": "agk@redhat.com", "time": "Sun Jun 03 00:30:01 2012 +0100" }, "message": "dm thin: provide userspace access to pool metadata\n\nThis patch implements two new messages that can be sent to the thin\npool target allowing it to take a snapshot of the _metadata_. This,\nread-only snapshot can be accessed by userland, concurrently with the\nlive target.\n\nOnly one metadata snapshot can be held at a time. The pool\u0027s status\nline will give the block location for the current msnap.\n\nSince version 0.1.5 of the userland thin provisioning tools, the\nthin_dump program displays the msnap as follows:\n\n thin_dump -m \u003cmsnap root\u003e \u003cmetadata dev\u003e\n\nAvailable here: https://github.com/jthornber/thin-provisioning-tools\n\nNow that userland can access the metadata we can do various things\nthat have traditionally been kernel side tasks:\n\n i) Incremental backups.\n\n By using metadata snapshots we can work out what blocks have\n changed over time. Combined with data snapshots we can ensure\n the data doesn\u0027t change while we back it up.\n\n A short proof of concept script can be found here:\n\n https://github.com/jthornber/thinp-test-suite/blob/master/incremental_backup_example.rb\n\n ii) Migration of thin devices from one pool to another.\n\n iii) Merging snapshots back into an external origin.\n\n iv) Asyncronous replication.\n\nSigned-off-by: Joe Thornber \u003cejt@redhat.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon \u003cagk@redhat.com\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "71fd5ae25d88841c08d5bbea90c0f0a12ca05509", "tree": "763ec9657bd25e4d42f1f6774faa65166364eede", "parents": [ "905e51b39a5558706a6ed883fe104de3d417050b" ], "author": { "name": "Joe Thornber", "email": "ejt@redhat.com", "time": "Wed Mar 28 18:41:27 2012 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Alasdair G Kergon", "email": "agk@redhat.com", "time": "Wed Mar 28 18:41:27 2012 +0100" }, "message": "dm persistent data: remove space map ref_count entries if redundant\n\nSave space by removing entries from the space map ref_count tree if\nthey\u0027re no longer needed.\n\nRef counts are stored in two places: a bitmap if the ref_count is\nbelow 3, or a btree of uint32_t if 3 or above.\n\nWhen a ref_count that was above 3 drops below we can remove it from\nthe tree and save some metadata space. This removal was commented out\nbefore because I was unsure why this was causing under-populated btree\nnodes. Earlier patches have fixed this issue.\n\nSigned-off-by: Joe Thornber \u003cejt@redhat.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Mike Snitzer \u003csnitzer@redhat.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon \u003cagk@redhat.com\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "a3aefb395e4f321c8b1314c88f1123624adcf743", "tree": "cedb3dbc643009cdba3c927b499e32e3247f7e5e", "parents": [ "466891f9959b500e037836737c064a72f2bbe8cf" ], "author": { "name": "Joe Thornber", "email": "ejt@redhat.com", "time": "Wed Mar 28 18:41:25 2012 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Alasdair G Kergon", "email": "agk@redhat.com", "time": "Wed Mar 28 18:41:25 2012 +0100" }, "message": "dm persistent data: remove redundant value_size arg from value_ptr\n\nNow that the value_size is held within every node of the btrees we can\nremove this argument from value_ptr().\n\nFor the last few months a BUG_ON has been checking this argument is\nthe same as that held in the node. No issues were reported. So this\nis a safe change.\n\nSigned-off-by: Joe Thornber \u003cejt@redhat.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Mike Snitzer \u003csnitzer@redhat.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon \u003cagk@redhat.com\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "b0988900bae9ecf968a8a8d086a9eec671a9517a", "tree": "9dd34ec6f4563b78ac454f3691757dece46c1926", "parents": [ "6f94a4c45a6f744383f9f695dde019998db3df55" ], "author": { "name": "Joe Thornber", "email": "ejt@redhat.com", "time": "Wed Mar 28 18:41:23 2012 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Alasdair G Kergon", "email": "agk@redhat.com", "time": "Wed Mar 28 18:41:23 2012 +0100" }, "message": "dm persistent data: fix btree rebalancing after remove\n\nWhen we remove an entry from a node we sometimes rebalance with it\u0027s\ntwo neighbours. This wasn\u0027t being done correctly; in some cases\nentries have to move all the way from the right neighbour to the left\nneighbour, or vice versa. This patch pretty much re-writes the\nbalancing code to fix it.\n\nThis code is barely used currently; only when you delete a thin\ndevice, and then only if you have hundreds of them in the same pool.\nOnce we have discard support, which removes mappings, this will be used\nmuch more heavily.\n\nSigned-off-by: Joe Thornber \u003cejt@redhat.com\u003e\nCc: stable@kernel.org\nSigned-off-by: Mike Snitzer \u003csnitzer@redhat.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon \u003cagk@redhat.com\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "a84450604d0fe08b6a2335efbedede18d3d7cc75", "tree": "013be8cd17b787a3051d1d614f794f30573467f8", "parents": [ "6f66263f8ebe1fb1f138de41ca9aa0a4860b30d0" ], "author": { "name": "Stephen Rothwell", "email": "sfr@canb.auug.org.au", "time": "Tue Nov 01 20:27:43 2011 +1100" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@linux-foundation.org", "time": "Mon Nov 07 10:29:10 2011 -0800" }, "message": "device-mapper: using EXPORT_SYBOL in dm-space-map-checker.c needs export.h\n\nReported-by: Witold Baryluk \u003cbaryluk@smp.if.uj.edu.pl\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Stephen Rothwell \u003csfr@canb.auug.org.au\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Paul Gortmaker \u003cpaul.gortmaker@windriver.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "1944ce60fe1e92506d3347f4d8e10a82b17096e4", "tree": "1da72242c0a525e6a46c3ddc9693d88816362a03", "parents": [ "0c073e35550879fd133bc3fe509df5b88da51278" ], "author": { "name": "Paul Gortmaker", "email": "paul.gortmaker@windriver.com", "time": "Wed Sep 28 18:29:32 2011 -0400" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@linux-foundation.org", "time": "Mon Nov 07 10:29:09 2011 -0800" }, "message": "drivers/md: change module.h -\u003e export.h in persistent-data/dm-*\n\nFor the files which are not themselves modular, we can change\nthem to include only the smaller export.h since all they are\ndoing is looking for EXPORT_SYMBOL.\n\nReported-by: Stephen Rothwell \u003csfr@canb.auug.org.au\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Paul Gortmaker \u003cpaul.gortmaker@windriver.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "3241b1d3e0aaafbfcd320f4d71ade629728cc4f4", "tree": "499461f724d4db3d7118641f4a20f5be23549edd", "parents": [ "95d402f057f2e208e4631893f6cd4a59c7c05e41" ], "author": { "name": "Joe Thornber", "email": "thornber@redhat.com", "time": "Mon Oct 31 20:19:11 2011 +0000" }, "committer": { "name": "Alasdair G Kergon", "email": "agk@redhat.com", "time": "Mon Oct 31 20:19:11 2011 +0000" }, "message": "dm: add persistent data library\n\nThe persistent-data library offers a re-usable framework for the storage\nand management of on-disk metadata in device-mapper targets.\n\nIt\u0027s used by the thin-provisioning target in the next patch and in an\nupcoming hierarchical storage target.\n\nFor further information, please read\nDocumentation/device-mapper/persistent-data.txt\n\nSigned-off-by: Joe Thornber \u003cthornber@redhat.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Mike Snitzer \u003csnitzer@redhat.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon \u003cagk@redhat.com\u003e\n" } ] }