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discard_zeroes_cow - a discard issued to the snapshot device that maps to entire chunks to will zero the corresponding exception(s) in the snapshot's exception store. discard_passdown_origin - a discard to the snapshot device is passed down to the snapshot-origin's underlying device. This doesn't cause copy-out to the snapshot exception store because the snapshot-origin target is bypassed. The discard_passdown_origin feature depends on the discard_zeroes_cow feature being enabled. When these 2 features are enabled they allow a temporarily read-only device that has completely exhausted its free space to recover space. To do so dm-snapshot provides temporary buffer to accommodate writes that the temporarily read-only device cannot handle yet. Once the upper layer frees space (e.g. fstrim to XFS) the discards issued to the dm-snapshot target will be issued to underlying read-only device whose free space was exhausted. In addition those discards will also cause zeroes to be written to the snapshot exception store if corresponding exceptions exist. If the underlying origin device provides deduplication for zero blocks then if/when the snapshot is merged backed to the origin those blocks will become unused. Once the origin has gained adequate space, merging the snapshot back to the thinly provisioned device will permit continued use of that device without the temporary space provided by the snapshot. Requested-by: John Dorminy <jdorminy@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> |
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Linux kernel
============
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.