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Commit d624c96f authored by Jaegeuk Kim's avatar Jaegeuk Kim
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f2fs: add recovery routines for roll-forward



This adds roll-forward routines to recover fsynced data.

- F2FS uses basically roll-back model with checkpointing.

- In order to implement fsync(), there are two approaches as follows.

1. A roll-back model with checkpointing at every fsync()
 : This is a naive method, but suffers from very low performance.

2. A roll-forward model
 : F2FS adopts this model where all the fsynced data should be recovered, which
   were written after checkpointing was done. In order to figure out the data,
   F2FS keeps a "fsync" mark in direct node blocks. In addition, F2FS remains
   the location of next node block in each direct node block for reconstructing
   the chain of node blocks during the recovery.

- In order to enhance the performance, F2FS keeps a "dentry" mark also in direct
  node blocks. If this is set during the recovery, F2FS replays adding a dentry.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
parent 7bc09003
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