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1 files changed, 36 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/src/journal/journal-file.c b/src/journal/journal-file.c
index a432eb08a6..be6a5522fa 100644
--- a/src/journal/journal-file.c
+++ b/src/journal/journal-file.c
@@ -2522,6 +2522,41 @@ void journal_file_print_header(JournalFile *f) {
printf("Disk usage: %s\n", format_bytes(bytes, sizeof(bytes), (off_t) st.st_blocks * 512ULL));
}
+static int journal_file_warn_btrfs(JournalFile *f) {
+ unsigned attrs;
+ int r;
+
+ assert(f);
+
+ /* Before we write anything, check if the COW logic is turned
+ * off on btrfs. Given our write pattern that is quite
+ * unfriendly to COW file systems this should greatly improve
+ * performance on COW file systems, such as btrfs, at the
+ * expense of data integrity features (which shouldn't be too
+ * bad, given that we do our own checksumming). */
+
+ r = btrfs_is_filesystem(f->fd);
+ if (r < 0)
+ return log_warning_errno(r, "Failed to determine if journal is on btrfs: %m");
+ if (!r)
+ return 0;
+
+ r = read_attr_fd(f->fd, &attrs);
+ if (r < 0)
+ return log_warning_errno(r, "Failed to read file attributes: %m");
+
+ if (attrs & FS_NOCOW_FL) {
+ log_debug("Detected btrfs file system with copy-on-write disabled, all is good.");
+ return 0;
+ }
+
+ log_notice("Creating journal file %s on a btrfs file system, and copy-on-write is enabled. "
+ "This is likely to slow down journal access substantially, please consider turning "
+ "off the copy-on-write file attribute on the journal directory, using chattr +C.", f->path);
+
+ return 1;
+}
+
int journal_file_open(
const char *fname,
int flags,
@@ -2602,16 +2637,7 @@ int journal_file_open(
if (f->last_stat.st_size == 0 && f->writable) {
- /* Before we write anything, turn off COW logic. Given
- * our write pattern that is quite unfriendly to COW
- * file systems this should greatly improve
- * performance on COW file systems, such as btrfs, at
- * the expense of data integrity features (which
- * shouldn't be too bad, given that we do our own
- * checksumming). */
- r = chattr_fd(f->fd, FS_NOCOW_FL, FS_NOCOW_FL);
- if (r < 0 && r != -ENOTTY)
- log_warning_errno(r, "Failed to set file attributes: %m");
+ (void) journal_file_warn_btrfs(f);
/* Let's attach the creation time to the journal file,
* so that the vacuuming code knows the age of this