This patch adds an extended option "assume_storage_prezeroed" to
mke2fs. When enabled, this option acts as a hint to mke2fs that
the underlying block device was zeroed before mke2fs was called.
This allows mke2fs to optimize out the zeroing of the inode
table and the journal, which speeds up the filesystem creation
time.
Additionally, on thinly provisioned storage devices (like Ceph,
dm-thin, newly created sparse loopback files), reads on unmapped extents
return zero. This property allows mke2fs (with assume_storage_prezeroed)
to avoid pre-allocating metadata space for inode tables for the entire
filesystem and saves space that would normally be preallocated
for zero inode tables.
Tests
-----
1) Running 'mke2fs -t ext4' on 10G sparse files on an ext4
filesystem drops the time taken by mke2fs from 0.09s to 0.04s
and reduces the initial metadata space allocation (stat on
sparse file) from 139736 blocks (545M) to 8672 blocks (34M).
2) On ChromeOS (running linux kernel 4.19) with dm-thin
and 200GB thin logical volumes using 'mke2fs -t ext4 <dev>':
- Time taken by mke2fs drops from 1.07s to 0.08s.
- Avoiding zeroing out the inode table and journal reduces the
initial metadata space allocation from 0.48% to 0.01%.
- Lazy inode table zeroing results in a further 1.45% of logical
volume space getting allocated for inode tables, even if no file
data is added to the filesystem. With assume_storage_prezeroed,
the metadata allocation remains at 0.01%.
Signed-off-by: Sarthak Kukreti <sarthakkukreti@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
--
Changes in v2: Added regression test, fixed indentation.
---
misc/mke2fs.8.in | 7 ++++++
misc/mke2fs.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++-
tests/m_assume_storage_prezeroed/expect | 2 ++
tests/m_assume_storage_prezeroed/script | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
4 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
create mode 100644 tests/m_assume_storage_prezeroed/expect
create mode 100644 tests/m_assume_storage_prezeroed/script
diff --git a/misc/mke2fs.8.in b/misc/mke2fs.8.in
index c0b53245..5c6ea5ec 100644
--- a/misc/mke2fs.8.in
+++ b/misc/mke2fs.8.in
@@ -365,6 +365,13 @@ small risk if the system crashes before the journal has been overwritten
entirely one time. If the option value is omitted, it defaults to 1 to
enable lazy journal inode zeroing.
.TP
+.B assume_storage_prezeroed\fR[\fB= \fI<0 to disable, 1 to enable>\fR]
+If enabled,
+.BR mke2fs
+assumes that the storage device has been prezeroed, skips zeroing the journal
+and inode tables, and annotates the block group flags to signal that the inode
+table has been zeroed.
+.TP
.B no_copy_xattrs
Normally
.B mke2fs
diff --git a/misc/mke2fs.c b/misc/mke2fs.c
index 04b2fbce..24c69966 100644
--- a/misc/mke2fs.c
+++ b/misc/mke2fs.c
@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ int journal_size;
int journal_flags;
int journal_fc_size;
static int lazy_itable_init;
+static int assume_storage_prezeroed;
static int packed_meta_blocks;
int no_copy_xattrs;
static char *bad_blocks_filename = NULL;
@@ -1012,6 +1013,11 @@ static void parse_extended_opts(struct ext2_super_block *param,
lazy_itable_init = strtoul(arg, &p, 0);
else
lazy_itable_init = 1;
+ } else if (!strcmp(token, "assume_storage_prezeroed")) {
+ if (arg)
+ assume_storage_prezeroed = strtoul(arg, &p, 0);
+ else
+ assume_storage_prezeroed = 1;
} else if (!strcmp(token, "lazy_journal_init")) {
if (arg)
journal_flags |= strtoul(arg, &p, 0) ?
@@ -1115,7 +1121,8 @@ static void parse_extended_opts(struct ext2_super_block *param,
"\tnodiscard\n"
"\tencoding=<encoding>\n"
"\tencoding_flags=<flags>\n"
- "\tquotatype=<quota type(s) to be enabled>\n\n"),
+ "\tquotatype=<quota type(s) to be enabled>\n"
+ "\tassume_storage_prezeroed=<0 to disable, 1 to enable>\n\n"),
badopt ? badopt : "");
free(buf);
exit(1);
@@ -3095,6 +3102,18 @@ int main (int argc, char *argv[])
io_channel_set_options(fs->io, opt_string);
}
+ if (assume_storage_prezeroed) {
+ if (verbose)
+ printf("%s",
+ _("Assuming the storage device is prezeroed "
+ "- skipping inode table and journal wipe\n"));
+
+ lazy_itable_init = 1;
+ itable_zeroed = 1;
+ zero_hugefile = 0;
+ journal_flags |= EXT2_MKJOURNAL_LAZYINIT;
+ }
+
/* Can't undo discard ... */
if (!noaction && discard && dev_size && (io_ptr != undo_io_manager)) {
retval = mke2fs_discard_device(fs);
diff --git a/tests/m_assume_storage_prezeroed/expect b/tests/m_assume_storage_prezeroed/expect
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2ca3784a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/m_assume_storage_prezeroed/expect
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+2384
+336
diff --git a/tests/m_assume_storage_prezeroed/script b/tests/m_assume_storage_prezeroed/script
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0745fb28
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/m_assume_storage_prezeroed/script
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+test_description="test prezeroed storage metadata allocation"
+FILE_SIZE=16M
+
+LOG=$test_name.log
+OUT=$test_name.out
+EXP=$test_dir/expect
+
+dd if=/dev/zero of=$TMPFILE.1 bs=1 count=0 seek=$FILE_SIZE >> $LOG 2>&1
+dd if=/dev/zero of=$TMPFILE.2 bs=1 count=0 seek=$FILE_SIZE >> $LOG 2>&1
+
+$MKE2FS -o Linux -t ext4 -O has_journal $TMPFILE.1 >> $LOG 2>&1
+stat -c "%b" $TMPFILE.1 > $OUT
+
+$MKE2FS -o Linux -t ext4 -O has_journal -E assume_storage_prezeroed=1 $TMPFILE.2 >> $LOG 2>&1
+stat -c "%b" $TMPFILE.2 >> $OUT
+
+rm -f $TMPFILE.1 $TMPFILE.2
+
+cmp -s $OUT $EXP
+status=$?
+
+if [ "$status" = 0 ] ; then
+ echo "$test_name: $test_description: ok"
+ touch $test_name.ok
+else
+ echo "$test_name: $test_description: failed"
+ cat $LOG > $test_name.failed
+ diff $EXP $OUT >> $test_name.failed
+fi
+
+unset LOG OUT EXP FILE_SIZE
\ No newline at end of file
--
2.31.0
