- 29 3月, 2012 1 次提交
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由 Joe Thornber 提交于
Avoid using the bi_next field for the holder of a cell when deferring bios because a stacked device below might change it. Store the holder in a new field in struct cell instead. When a cell is created, the bio that triggered creation (the holder) was added to the same bio list as subsequent bios. In some cases we pass this holder bio directly to devices underneath. If those devices use the bi_next field there will be trouble... This also simplifies some code that had to work out which bio was the holder. Signed-off-by: NJoe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
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- 01 11月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 Joe Thornber 提交于
Initial EXPERIMENTAL implementation of device-mapper thin provisioning with snapshot support. The 'thin' target is used to create instances of the virtual devices that are hosted in the 'thin-pool' target. The thin-pool target provides data sharing among devices. This sharing is made possible using the persistent-data library in the previous patch. The main highlight of this implementation, compared to the previous implementation of snapshots, is that it allows many virtual devices to be stored on the same data volume, simplifying administration and allowing sharing of data between volumes (thus reducing disk usage). Another big feature is support for arbitrary depth of recursive snapshots (snapshots of snapshots of snapshots ...). The previous implementation of snapshots did this by chaining together lookup tables, and so performance was O(depth). This new implementation uses a single data structure so we don't get this degradation with depth. For further information and examples of how to use this, please read Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt Signed-off-by: NJoe Thornber <thornber@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
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