Currently attributes are modified directly across one or more
transactions. But they are not logged or replayed in the event of an
error. The goal of log attr replay is to enable logging and replaying
of attribute operations using the existing delayed operations
infrastructure. This will later enable the attributes to become part of
larger multi part operations that also must first be recorded to the
log. This is mostly of interest in the scheme of parent pointers which
would need to maintain an attribute containing parent inode information
any time an inode is moved, created, or removed. Parent pointers would
then be of interest to any feature that would need to quickly derive an
inode path from the mount point. Online scrub, nfs lookups and fs grow
or shrink operations are all features that could take advantage of this.
This patch adds two new log item types for setting or removing
attributes as deferred operations. The xfs_attri_log_item will log an
intent to set or remove an attribute. The corresponding
xfs_attrd_log_item holds a reference to the xfs_attri_log_item and is
freed once the transaction is done. Both log items use a generic
xfs_attr_log_format structure that contains the attribute name, value,
flags, inode, and an op_flag that indicates if the operations is a set
or remove.
[dchinner: added extra little bits needed for intent whiteouts]
Signed-off-by: Allison Henderson <allison.henderson@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Chandan Babu R <chandanrlinux@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
