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From 349ea14a32ab63555cff47440f178ed01870e3f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
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From: Neal Gompa <ngompa@centosproject.org>
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Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2021 19:25:55 -0400
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Subject: [PATCH] balance, mkfs: Disable raid56 modes
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The RAID 5/6 modes in Btrfs are not yet suitable for production use,
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so it is disabled.
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Signed-off-by: Neal Gompa <ngompa@centosproject.org>
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---
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 cmds/balance.c | 35 ++++-------------------------------
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 mkfs/main.c    |  4 ++--
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 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/cmds/balance.c b/cmds/balance.c
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index 7abc69d9..ab86ff36 100644
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--- a/cmds/balance.c
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+++ b/cmds/balance.c
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@@ -376,8 +376,7 @@ static const char * const cmd_balance_start_usage[] = {
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 	"-d[filters]    act on data chunks",
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 	"-m[filters]    act on metadata chunks",
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 	"-s[filters]    act on system chunks (only under -f)",
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-	"-f             force a reduction of metadata integrity, or",
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-	"               skip timeout when converting to RAID56 profiles",
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+	"-f             force a reduction of metadata integrity",
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 	"--full-balance do not print warning and do not delay start",
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 	"--background|--bg",
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 	"               run the balance as a background process",
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@@ -400,7 +399,6 @@ static int cmd_balance_start(const struct cmd_struct *cmd,
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 	int background = 0;
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 	bool enqueue = false;
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 	unsigned start_flags = 0;
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-	bool raid56_warned = false;
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 	int i;
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 	memset(&args, 0, sizeof(args));
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@@ -507,8 +505,6 @@ static int cmd_balance_start(const struct cmd_struct *cmd,
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 	/* soft makes sense only when convert for corresponding type is set */
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 	for (i = 0; ptrs[i]; i++) {
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-		int delay = 10;
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-
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 		if ((ptrs[i]->flags & BTRFS_BALANCE_ARGS_SOFT) &&
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 		    !(ptrs[i]->flags & BTRFS_BALANCE_ARGS_CONVERT)) {
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 			error("'soft' option can be used only when converting profiles");
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@@ -518,33 +514,10 @@ static int cmd_balance_start(const struct cmd_struct *cmd,
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 		if (!(ptrs[i]->flags & BTRFS_BALANCE_ARGS_CONVERT))
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 			continue;
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-		if (!(ptrs[i]->target & BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_RAID56_MASK))
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-			continue;
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-
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-		if (raid56_warned)
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-			continue;
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-
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-		raid56_warned = true;
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-		printf("WARNING:\n\n");
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-		printf("\tRAID5/6 support has known problems and is strongly discouraged\n");
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-		printf("\tto be used besides testing or evaluation. It is recommended that\n");
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-		printf("\tyou use one of the other RAID profiles.\n");
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-		/*
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-		 * Override timeout by the --force option too, though it's
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-		 * otherwise used for allowing redundancy reduction.
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-		 */
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-		if (force) {
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-			printf("\tSafety timeout skipped due to --force\n\n");
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-			continue;
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-		}
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-		printf("\tThe operation will continue in %d seconds.\n", delay);
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-		printf("\tUse Ctrl-C to stop.\n");
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-		while (delay) {
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-			printf("%2d", delay--);
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-			fflush(stdout);
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-			sleep(1);
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+		if (ptrs[i]->target & BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_RAID56_MASK) {
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+			error("RAID5/6 support has known problems and is disabled.");
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+			return 1;
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 		}
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-		printf("\nStarting conversion to RAID5/6.\n");
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 	}
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 	if (!(start_flags & BALANCE_START_FILTERS) && !(start_flags & BALANCE_START_NOWARN)) {
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diff --git a/mkfs/main.c b/mkfs/main.c
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index 4d50bd25..5f66e6ae 100644
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--- a/mkfs/main.c
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+++ b/mkfs/main.c
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@@ -1176,8 +1176,8 @@ int BOX_MAIN(mkfs)(int argc, char **argv)
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 	if ((data_profile | metadata_profile) & BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_RAID56_MASK) {
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 		features |= BTRFS_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_RAID56;
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-		warning("RAID5/6 support has known problems is strongly discouraged\n"
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-			"\t to be used besides testing or evaluation.\n");
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+		error("RAID5/6 support has known problems and is disabled.");
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+		exit(1);
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 	}
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 	if ((data_profile | metadata_profile) &
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-- 
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2.31.1
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