journald: whenever we rotate a file, btrfs defrag it

Our write pattern is quite awful for CoW file systems (btrfs...), as we
keep updating file parts in the beginning of the file. This results in
fragmented journal files. Hence: when rotating files, defragment them,
since at that point we know that no further write accesses will be made.

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/shared/btrfs-util.c b/src/shared/btrfs-util.c
index 164ac9f337..e648121b47 100644
--- a/src/shared/btrfs-util.c
+++ b/src/shared/btrfs-util.c
@@ -531,3 +531,22 @@ finish:
 
         return 0;
 }
+
+int btrfs_defrag_fd(int fd) {
+        assert(fd >= 0);
+
+        if (ioctl(fd, BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG, NULL) < 0)
+                return -errno;
+
+        return 0;
+}
+
+int btrfs_defrag(const char *p) {
+        _cleanup_close_ int fd = -1;
+
+        fd = open(p, O_RDWR|O_CLOEXEC|O_NOCTTY|O_NOFOLLOW);
+        if (fd < 0)
+                return -errno;
+
+        return btrfs_defrag_fd(fd);
+}