From 349ea14a32ab63555cff47440f178ed01870e3f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Neal Gompa <ngompa@centosproject.org>

Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2021 19:25:55 -0400

Subject: [PATCH] balance, mkfs: Disable raid56 modes

The RAID 5/6 modes in Btrfs are not yet suitable for production use,

so it is disabled.

Signed-off-by: Neal Gompa <ngompa@centosproject.org>

---

 cmds/balance.c | 35 ++++-------------------------------

 mkfs/main.c    |  4 ++--

 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)

diff --git a/cmds/balance.c b/cmds/balance.c

index 7abc69d9..ab86ff36 100644

--- a/cmds/balance.c

+++ b/cmds/balance.c

@@ -376,8 +376,7 @@ static const char * const cmd_balance_start_usage[] = {

 	"-d[filters]    act on data chunks",

 	"-m[filters]    act on metadata chunks",

 	"-s[filters]    act on system chunks (only under -f)",

-	"-f             force a reduction of metadata integrity, or",

-	"               skip timeout when converting to RAID56 profiles",

+	"-f             force a reduction of metadata integrity",

 	"--full-balance do not print warning and do not delay start",

 	"--background|--bg",

 	"               run the balance as a background process",

@@ -400,7 +399,6 @@ static int cmd_balance_start(const struct cmd_struct *cmd,

 	int background = 0;

 	bool enqueue = false;

 	unsigned start_flags = 0;

-	bool raid56_warned = false;

 	int i;

 	memset(&args, 0, sizeof(args));

@@ -507,8 +505,6 @@ static int cmd_balance_start(const struct cmd_struct *cmd,

 	/* soft makes sense only when convert for corresponding type is set */

 	for (i = 0; ptrs[i]; i++) {

-		int delay = 10;

-

 		if ((ptrs[i]->flags & BTRFS_BALANCE_ARGS_SOFT) &&

 		    !(ptrs[i]->flags & BTRFS_BALANCE_ARGS_CONVERT)) {

 			error("'soft' option can be used only when converting profiles");

@@ -518,33 +514,10 @@ static int cmd_balance_start(const struct cmd_struct *cmd,

 		if (!(ptrs[i]->flags & BTRFS_BALANCE_ARGS_CONVERT))

 			continue;

-		if (!(ptrs[i]->target & BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_RAID56_MASK))

-			continue;

-

-		if (raid56_warned)

-			continue;

-

-		raid56_warned = true;

-		printf("WARNING:\n\n");

-		printf("\tRAID5/6 support has known problems and is strongly discouraged\n");

-		printf("\tto be used besides testing or evaluation. It is recommended that\n");

-		printf("\tyou use one of the other RAID profiles.\n");

-		/*

-		 * Override timeout by the --force option too, though it's

-		 * otherwise used for allowing redundancy reduction.

-		 */

-		if (force) {

-			printf("\tSafety timeout skipped due to --force\n\n");

-			continue;

-		}

-		printf("\tThe operation will continue in %d seconds.\n", delay);

-		printf("\tUse Ctrl-C to stop.\n");

-		while (delay) {

-			printf("%2d", delay--);

-			fflush(stdout);

-			sleep(1);

+		if (ptrs[i]->target & BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_RAID56_MASK) {

+			error("RAID5/6 support has known problems and is disabled.");

+			return 1;

 		}

-		printf("\nStarting conversion to RAID5/6.\n");

 	}

 	if (!(start_flags & BALANCE_START_FILTERS) && !(start_flags & BALANCE_START_NOWARN)) {

diff --git a/mkfs/main.c b/mkfs/main.c

index 4d50bd25..5f66e6ae 100644

--- a/mkfs/main.c

+++ b/mkfs/main.c

@@ -1176,8 +1176,8 @@ int BOX_MAIN(mkfs)(int argc, char **argv)

 	if ((data_profile | metadata_profile) & BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_RAID56_MASK) {

 		features |= BTRFS_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_RAID56;

-		warning("RAID5/6 support has known problems is strongly discouraged\n"

-			"\t to be used besides testing or evaluation.\n");

+		error("RAID5/6 support has known problems and is disabled.");

+		exit(1);

 	}

 	if ((data_profile | metadata_profile) &

-- 

2.31.1