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Auke Kok 72dc5695a6 Introduce meta_reserve_blocks mount option, default value.
This option adds a mount option, with default value of 16384, that adds
an additional reserve amount of blocks for the meta device.

The default value is 16384, which corresponds to 1GB of space, and just
about doubles the internal value for the reserve that is calculated
based on clients/mounts dynamically in sort of standard values. It also
just compromises about less than 2% of the meta device size for the
smallest meta device size.

A suggested value for larger deployments is like somewhere around 256
blocks per GB of meta device size, i.e. 1/64 of the meta device space,
and about 1.6% in effect.

Customers who are running into issues can adjust their mount options to
increase the value to have a larger safety buffer, or decrease it to
potentially have a way to get out of low space conditions temporarily.
Obviously one would want to increase the value of this option after
resolving the low space condition issues as soon as possible.

Our test suite will run with meta_reserve_blocks=0, so that the behavior
of any of our tests is functionally unaffected by this change, and won't
interfere with resolving underlying ENOSPC issues and their resolution.
The addition of this option however allows us to artifically create
ENOSPC conditions at will, and we may want to add tests specifically
that do so.

Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke.kok@versity.com>
2025-04-17 16:06:33 -04:00
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