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Exclusion was generating a new Task every time a lock was contended. That results in thousands of empty Task objects which contain a single Task item. Get rid of ExclusionState. Exclusion is now a simple weak_ptr to a Task. If the weak_ptr is expired, the Exclusion is unlocked. If the weak_ptr is not expired, it points to the Task which owns the Exclusion. try_lock now appends the Task attempting to lock the Exclusion directly to the owning Task, eliminating the need for Exclusion to have one. This also removes the need to call insert_task separately, though insert_task remains for other use cases. With no ExclusionState there is no need for a string argument to Exclusion's constructor, so get rid of that too. Signed-off-by: Zygo Blaxell <bees@furryterror.org>
BEES
Best-Effort Extent-Same, a btrfs deduplication agent.
About bees
bees is a block-oriented userspace deduplication agent designed for large btrfs filesystems. It is an offline dedupe combined with an incremental data scan capability to minimize time data spends on disk from write to dedupe.
Strengths
- Space-efficient hash table and matching algorithms - can use as little as 1 GB hash table per 10 TB unique data (0.1GB/TB)
- Daemon incrementally dedupes new data using btrfs tree search
- Works with btrfs compression - dedupe any combination of compressed and uncompressed files
- NEW Works around
btrfs sendproblems with dedupe and incremental parent snapshots - Works around btrfs filesystem structure to free more disk space
- Persistent hash table for rapid restart after shutdown
- Whole-filesystem dedupe - including snapshots
- Constant hash table size - no increased RAM usage if data set becomes larger
- Works on live data - no scheduled downtime required
- Automatic self-throttling based on system load
Weaknesses
- Whole-filesystem dedupe - has no include/exclude filters, does not accept file lists
- Requires root privilege (or
CAP_SYS_ADMIN) - First run may require temporary disk space for extent reorganization
- First run may increase metadata space usage if many snapshots exist
- Constant hash table size - no decreased RAM usage if data set becomes smaller
- btrfs only
Installation and Usage
Recommended Reading
- bees Gotchas
- btrfs kernel bugs - especially DATA CORRUPTION WARNING
- bees vs. other btrfs features
- What to do when something goes wrong
More Information
Bug Reports and Contributions
Email bug reports and patches to Zygo Blaxell bees@furryterror.org.
You can also use Github:
https://github.com/Zygo/bees
Copyright & License
Copyright 2015-2022 Zygo Blaxell bees@furryterror.org.
GPL (version 3 or later).