[PATCH 0/8] Snapshot deletion improvements
From: Kent Overstreet
Date: Fri May 02 2025 - 16:00:26 EST
Snapshot deletion performance has been reported to be an issue, so this
patch series should address that.
The important optimization relies on the fact that if an
extent/dirent/xattr exists, a version of that inode must exist in that
specific snapshot. We can make use of that to avoid a lot of scanning.
Previously only fsck relied on this, so it would spit out a warning and
correct the issue in its in memory data structures if this occurred.
Now, it's turned into a proper fsck_err() with on-disk repair if
detected.
We also want some additional safety with this: if snapshot deletion ever
screws up and doesn't delete all the keys it was supposed to, we want to
be able to automatically repair.
So there's a new on disk format version with an incompatible (i.e. must
be expliticly enabled) feature, where we never delete snapshot keys - we
just mark them as deleted.
This allows fsck to differentiate between "key for deleted snapshot, I
know how to repair this" vs. "key for missing snapshot, we're not sure
what happened and someone should probably take a look".
And snapshot deletion status is now present in sysfs, currently with
btree and position in that btree. We do have per-snapshot-id accounting,
so it might be possible to turn that into a proper progress indicator
later.
Kent Overstreet (8):
bcachefs: snapshot delete progress indicator
bcachefs: Add comments for inode snapshot requirements
bcachefs: kill inode_walker_entry.snapshot
bcachefs: BCH_FSCK_ERR_snapshot_key_missing_inode_snapshot
bcachefs: Skip unrelated snapshot trees in snapshot deletion
bcachefs: BCH_SNAPSHOT_DELETED -> BCH_SNAPSHOT_WILL_DELETE
bcachefs: bcachefs_metadata_version_snapshot_deletion_v2
bcachefs: delete_dead_snapshot_keys_v2()
fs/bcachefs/bcachefs.h | 3 +-
fs/bcachefs/bcachefs_format.h | 3 +-
fs/bcachefs/fsck.c | 78 ++++---
fs/bcachefs/io_write.c | 6 +
fs/bcachefs/sb-errors_format.h | 4 +-
fs/bcachefs/snapshot.c | 389 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
fs/bcachefs/snapshot.h | 32 ++-
fs/bcachefs/snapshot_format.h | 4 +-
fs/bcachefs/snapshot_types.h | 56 +++++
fs/bcachefs/subvolume.c | 2 -
fs/bcachefs/subvolume.h | 3 -
fs/bcachefs/subvolume_types.h | 27 ---
fs/bcachefs/super.c | 1 +
fs/bcachefs/sysfs.c | 5 +
fs/bcachefs/xattr.c | 5 +
15 files changed, 445 insertions(+), 173 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 fs/bcachefs/snapshot_types.h
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