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author | Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> | 2014-03-03 15:23:15 (GMT) |
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committer | Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> | 2014-03-27 20:56:23 (GMT) |
commit | eec40579d84873dfb7021eb24c50360f073237c5 (patch) | |
tree | a294d43a2029ab02ceeab33396e7c948e374a571 /drivers/md/persistent-data | |
parent | b098d6726bbfb94c06d6e1097466187afddae61f (diff) | |
download | linux-eec40579d84873dfb7021eb24c50360f073237c5.tar.xz |
dm: add era target
dm-era is a target that behaves similar to the linear target. In
addition it keeps track of which blocks were written within a user
defined period of time called an 'era'. Each era target instance
maintains the current era as a monotonically increasing 32-bit
counter.
Use cases include tracking changed blocks for backup software, and
partially invalidating the contents of a cache to restore cache
coherency after rolling back a vendor snapshot.
dm-era is primarily expected to be paired with the dm-cache target.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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