Hi again -- back with a few more questions:
Frame-of-reference here: RAID0. Around 70TB raw capacity. No
compression. No quotas enabled. Many (potentially tens to hundreds) of
subvolumes, each with tens of snapshots. No control over size or number
of files, but directory tree (entries per dir and general tree depth)
can be controlled in case that's helpful).
1. I've been reading up about the space cache, and it appears there is a
v2 of it called the free space tree that is much friendlier to large
filesystems such as the one I am designing for. It is listed as OK/OK
on the wiki status page, but there is a note that btrfs progs treats it
as read only (i.e., btrfs check repair cannot help me without a full
space cache rebuild is my biggest concern) and the last status update on
this I can find was circa fall 2016. Can anybody give me an updated
status on this feature? From what I read, v1 and tens of TB filesystems
will not play well together, so I'm inclined to dig into this.
2. There's another thread on-going about mount delays. I've been
completely blind to this specific problem until it caught my eye. Does
anyone have ballpark estimates for how long very large HDD-based
filesystems will take to mount? Yes, I know it will depend on the
dataset. I'm looking for O() worst-case approximations for
enterprise-grade large drives (12/14TB), as I expect it should scale
with multiple drives so approximating for a single drive should be good
enough.
3. Do long mount delays relate to space_cache v1 vs v2 (I would guess
no, unless it needed to be regenerated)?
Note that I'm not sensitive to multi-second mount delays. I am
sensitive to multi-minute mount delays, hence why I'm bringing this up.
FWIW: I am currently populating a machine we have with 6TB drives in it
with real-world home dir data to see if I can replicate the mount issue.
Thanks,
ellis
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