On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 7:58 AM Peter Robinson <pbrobin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I've been very clear from the outset that Facebook's fault tolerance is much > > higher than the average Fedora user. The only reason I've agreed to assist > > in > > answering questions and support this proposal is because I have multi-year > > data > > that shows our failure rates are the same that we see on every other file > > system, which is basically the failure rate of the disks themselves. > > > > And I specifically point out the hardware that we use that most closely > > reflects > > the drives that an average Fedora user is going to have. We of course have > > a > > very wide variety of hardware. In fact the very first thing we deployed on > > were > > these expensive hardware RAID setups. Btrfs found bugs in that firmware > > that > > was silently corrupting data. These corruptions had been corrupting AI test > > data for years under XFS, and Btrfs found it in a matter of days because of > > our > > checksumming. > > > > We use all sorts of hardware, and have all sorts of similar stories like > > this. > > I agree that the hardware is going to be muuuuuch more varied with Fedora > > users, > > and that Facebook has muuuuch higher fault tolerance. But higher production > > failures inside FB means more engineering time spent dealing with those > > failures, which translates to lost productivity. If btrfs was causing us > > to run > > around fixing it all the time then we wouldn't deploy it. The fact is that > > it's > > not, it's perfectly stable from our perspective. Thanks, > > Thanks for the details, you have any data/information/opinions on non > x86 architectures such as aarch64/armv7/ppc64le all of which have > supported desktops too?
Sample size of 1: Raspberry Pi Zero running Arch for ~ a year. I use mount option -o compress=zstd:1. I haven't benchmarked it, it's a Pi Zero so it's slow no matter what file system is used. But anecdotally I can't tell a difference enough to even speculate. This is a bit of an overly verbose mess, but the take away is that at least for /usr I'm saving about 41%. Space and writes. $ sudo compsize /usr Processed 48038 files, 28473 regular extents (28757 refs), 25825 inline. Type Perc Disk Usage Uncompressed Referenced TOTAL 59% 879M 1.4G 1.4G none 100% 435M 435M 435M lzo 54% 153M 281M 287M zstd 37% 289M 767M 786M $ I could instead selectively compress just certain directories or files, using an XATTR (there is a btrfs command for setting it). Compression can aslo be applied after the fact by defragmenting with a compression option. I think the reduction in write amplification in this use case is significant because SD cards are just so impressively terrible. I have only ever seen them return garbage rather than the device itself admit a read error (UNC read error), and btrfs will catch that. I seriously would only ever use btrfs for this. I might consider another file system if I were using industrial SD cards, but *shrug* in that case I'd probably spend a bit more time benchmarking things and seeing if i can squeak out a bit more performance from lzo or zstd:1 on reads due to a reduction in IO latency. Because SLC is going to be slower than TLC or anything else. I don't know much about eMMC media, but if it's a permanent resident on the board, all the more reason I'd use btrfs and compress everything. I *might* even consider changing the compression level to something more aggressive for updates because the performance limitation isn't the compression hit, but rather the internet bandwidth. This is as simple as 'mount -o remount,compress=zstd:9 /' and then do the update - and upon reboot it's still zstd:1 or whatever is in fstab/systemd mount unit. A future feature might be to add level to the existing XATTR method of setting compression per dir or per file. So you could indicate things like "always use heavier compression" for specific dirs. -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
