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This commit adds zone-aware magics and probing functions for zoned btrfs. The superblock (and its copies) are the only data structure in btrfs with a fixed location on a device. Since we cannot do overwrites in a sequential write required zone, we cannot place the superblock in the zone. Thus, zoned btrfs uses superblock log writing to update superblocks on sequential write required zones. It uses two zones as a circular buffer to write updated superblocks. Once the first zone is filled up, start writing into the second buffer. When both zones are filled up, and before starting to write to the first zone again, it reset the first zone. We can determine the position of the latest superblock by reading the write pointer information from a device. One corner case is when both zones are full. For this situation, we read out the last superblock of each zone and compare them to determine which zone is older. The magics can detect a superblock magic ("_BHRfs_M") at the beginning of zone #0 or zone #1 to see if it is zoned btrfs. When both zones are filled up, zoned btrfs resets the first zone to write a new superblock. If btrfs crashes at the moment, we do not see a superblock at zone #0. Thus, we need to check not only zone #0 but also zone #1. It also supports the temporary magic ("!BHRfS_M") in zone #0. Mkfs.btrfs first writes the temporary superblock to the zone during the mkfs process. It will survive there until the zones are filled up and reset. So, we also need to detect this temporary magic. Finally, this commit extends probe_btrfs() to load the latest superblock determined by the write pointers. Signed-off-by: Naohiro Aota <naohiro.aota@wdc.com>pull/1323/head


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