Re: [bcachefs] Mounting the same device multiple times now works

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On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 12:36 AM, Ming Lin <mlin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-08-11 at 17:38 -0800, Kent Overstreet wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 10:59:42AM -0700, Ming Lin wrote:
>> > On Tue, 2015-08-11 at 00:34 -0800, Kent Overstreet wrote:
>> > > Like in other filesystems, you can now do
>> > >
>> > > mount /dev/sda1 /foo
>> > > mount /dev/sda1 /bar
>> > >
>> > > What this really means is that if the udev hook has registered the bcache device
>> > > via the old style sysfs interface for caching, you'll still be able to mount the
>> > > device like normal.
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> >
>> > BTW, could you share the bcachefs long term development plans and short
>> > term high priority tasks?
>>
>> Right now, my main priority is stabilizing it and making it usable - fixing all
>> the things that people are going to trip over when they try it out. I want to
>> get it somewhat more polished before I announce on linux-fsdevel.
>>
>> The big thing I'm working on at the moment is debugging atomic renames, I had to
>> back that code out at the last minute.
>>
>> > I'd like to pick something to work on. Probably the debugfs tool you
>> > mentioned or other things?
>>
>> One thing that would actually be really helpful is more benchmarking vs.
>> ext4/xfs - identifying areas where there's still more performance work to do.
>>
>> The debugfs tool is definitely important but that's a longer term thing. If
>> you're feeling productive like that feel free to keep going with it.
>>
>> Really though right now the main thing we need is more testing and debugging.
>
> I have run xfstests. Here is the results for generic tests.
> http://minggr.net/pub/bcachefs/xfstests.log
>
> One thing is fallocate not supported yet. Is it known?

Yes, fallocate is not implemented in bch_file_operations.

>
> root@bee:~# mount |grep bcache
> /dev/sda on /mnt/test type bcache (rw,relatime)
>
> root@bee:~# fallocate -l 4096 /mnt/test/hello.c
> fallocate: /mnt/test/hello.c: fallocate failed: Operation not supported
>
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