spaceman: relocate the contents of an AG
Shrinking a filesystem needs to first remove all the active user
data and metadata from the AGs that are going to be lopped off the
filesystem. Before we can do this, we have to relocate this
information to a region of the filesystem that is going to be
retained.
We have a function to move an inode and all it's related
information to a specific AG, we have functions to find the
owners of all the information in an AG and we can find their paths.
This gives us all the information we need to relocate all the
objects in an AG we are going to remove via shrinking.
Firstly we scan the AG to be emptied to find the inodes that need to
be relocated, then we scan the directory structure to find all the
paths to those inodes that need to be moved. Then we iterate over
all the inodes to be moved attempting to move them to the lowest
numbers AGs.
When the destination AG fills up, we'll get ENOSPC from
the moving code and this is a trigger to bump the destination AG and
retry the move. If we haven't moved all the inodes and their data by
the time the destination reaches the source AG, then the entire
operation will fail with ENOSPC - there is not enough room in the
filesystem to empty the selected AG in preparation for a shrink.
This, once again, is not intended as an optimal or even guaranteed
way of emptying an AG for shrink. It simply provides the basic
algorithm and mechanisms we need to perform a shrink operation.
Improvements and optimisations will come in time, but we can't get
to an optimal solution without first having basic functionality in
place.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
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