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The first step of the rebalance process ensures there is 1MiB free on each device. This number seems rather small. And in fact when talking to the original authors their opinions were: "man that's a little bonkers" "i don't think we even need that code anymore" "I think it was there to make sure we had room for the blank 1M at the beginning. I bet it goes all the way back to v0" "we just don't need any of that tho, i say we just delete it" Clearly, this piece of code has lost its original intent throughout the years. It doesn't really bring any real practical benefits to the relocation process. Additionally, this patch makes the balance process more lightweight by removing a pair of shrink/grow operations which are rather expensive for heavily populated filesystems. This is mainly due to shrink requiring relocating block groups, involving heavy use of the btree. The intermediate shrink/grow can fail and leave the filesystem in a middle state that would need to be changed back by the user. Suggested-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com> [ update changelog ] Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.