bcachefs: Journal updates to interior nodes
Previously, the btree has always been self contained and internally consistent on disk without anything from the journal - the journal just contained pointers to the btree roots. However, this meant that btree node split or compact operations - i.e. anything that changes btree node topology and involves updates to interior nodes - would require that interior btree node to be written immediately, which means emitting a btree node write that's mostly empty (using 4k of space on disk if the filesystemm blocksize is 4k to only write perhaps ~100 bytes of new keys). More importantly, this meant most btree node writes had to be FUA, and consumer drives have a history of slow and/or buggy FUA support - other filesystes have been bit by this. This patch changes the interior btree update path to journal updates to interior nodes, after the writes for the new btree nodes have completed. Best of all, it turns out to simplify the interior node update path somewhat. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
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