Current atomic write has three major issues like below.
- keeps the updates in non-reclaimable memory space and they are even
hard to be migrated, which is not good for contiguous memory
allocation.
- disk spaces used for atomic files cannot be garbage collected, so
this makes it difficult for the filesystem to be defragmented.
- If atomic write operations hit the threshold of either memory usage
or garbage collection failure count, All the atomic write operations
will fail immediately.
To resolve the issues, I will keep a COW inode internally for all the
updates to be flushed from memory, when we need to flush them out in a
situation like high memory pressure. These COW inodes will be tagged
as orphan inodes to be reclaimed in case of sudden power-cut or system
failure during atomic writes.
Signed-off-by: Daeho Jeong <daehojeong@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>