Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] fiemap extension for more physical information

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On Wed, Apr 03, 2024 at 02:17:26PM -0400, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 03, 2024 at 03:22:41AM -0400, Sweet Tea Dorminy wrote:
> > For many years, various btrfs users have written programs to discover
> > the actual disk space used by files, using root-only interfaces.
> > However, this information is a great fit for fiemap: it is inherently
> > tied to extent information, all filesystems can use it, and the
> > capabilities required for FIEMAP make sense for this additional
> > information also.
> > 
> > Hence, this patchset adds various additional information to fiemap,
> > and extends filesystems (but not iomap) to return it.  This uses some of
> > the reserved padding in the fiemap extent structure, so programs unaware
> > of the changes will be unaffected.
> > 
> > This is based on next-20240403. I've tested the btrfs part of this with
> > the standard btrfs testing matrix locally and manually, and done minimal
> > testing of the non-btrfs parts.
> > 
> > I'm unsure whether btrfs should be returning the entire physical extent
> > referenced by a particular logical range, or just the part of the
> > physical extent referenced by that range. The v2 thread has a discussion
> > of this.
> 
> I believe there was some talk of using the padding for a device ID, so
> that fiemap could properly support multi device filesystems. Are we sure
> this is the best use of those bytes?

We still have 5x u32 of empty space in struct fiemap after this series,
so I don't think adding the physical length is going to prohibit future
expansion.

--D

> > 
> > Changelog:
> > 
> > v3: 
> >  - Adapted all the direct users of fiemap, except iomap, to emit
> >    the new fiemap information, as far as I understand the other
> >    filesystems.
> > 
> > v2:
> >  - Adopted PHYS_LEN flag and COMPRESSED flag from the previous version,
> >    as per Andreas Dilger' comment.
> >    https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linux-ext4/patch/4f8d5dc5b51a43efaf16c39398c23a6276e40a30.1386778303.git.dsterba@xxxxxxx/
> >  - https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/cover.1711588701.git.sweettea-kernel@xxxxxxxxxx/T/#t
> > 
> > v1: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20240315030334.GQ6184@frogsfrogsfrogs/T/#t
> > 
> > Sweet Tea Dorminy (13):
> >   fs: fiemap: add physical_length field to extents
> >   fs: fiemap: update fiemap_fill_next_extent() signature
> >   fs: fiemap: add new COMPRESSED extent state
> >   btrfs: fiemap: emit new COMPRESSED state.
> >   btrfs: fiemap: return extent physical size
> >   nilfs2: fiemap: return correct extent physical length
> >   ext4: fiemap: return correct extent physical length
> >   f2fs: fiemap: add physical length to trace_f2fs_fiemap
> >   f2fs: fiemap: return correct extent physical length
> >   ocfs2: fiemap: return correct extent physical length
> >   bcachefs: fiemap: return correct extent physical length
> >   f2fs: fiemap: emit new COMPRESSED state
> >   bcachefs: fiemap: emit new COMPRESSED state
> > 
> >  Documentation/filesystems/fiemap.rst | 35 ++++++++++----
> >  fs/bcachefs/fs.c                     | 17 +++++--
> >  fs/btrfs/extent_io.c                 | 72 ++++++++++++++++++----------
> >  fs/ext4/extents.c                    |  3 +-
> >  fs/f2fs/data.c                       | 36 +++++++++-----
> >  fs/f2fs/inline.c                     |  7 +--
> >  fs/ioctl.c                           | 11 +++--
> >  fs/iomap/fiemap.c                    |  2 +-
> >  fs/nilfs2/inode.c                    | 18 ++++---
> >  fs/ntfs3/frecord.c                   |  7 +--
> >  fs/ocfs2/extent_map.c                | 10 ++--
> >  fs/smb/client/smb2ops.c              |  1 +
> >  include/linux/fiemap.h               |  2 +-
> >  include/trace/events/f2fs.h          | 10 ++--
> >  include/uapi/linux/fiemap.h          | 34 ++++++++++---
> >  15 files changed, 178 insertions(+), 87 deletions(-)
> > 
> > 
> > base-commit: 75e31f66adc4c8d049e8aac1f079c1639294cd65
> > -- 
> > 2.43.0
> > 
> 




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