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The recovery journal is used to amortize updates across the block map and slab depot. Each write request causes an entry to be made in the journal. Entries are either "data remappings" or "block map remappings." For a data remapping, the journal records the logical address affected and its old and new physical mappings. For a block map remapping, the journal records the block map page number and the physical block allocated for it (block map pages are never reclaimed, so the old mapping is always 0). Each journal entry and the data write it represents must be stable on disk before the other metadata structures may be updated to reflect the operation. Co-developed-by: J. corwin Coburn <corwin@hurlbutnet.net> Signed-off-by: J. corwin Coburn <corwin@hurlbutnet.net> Co-developed-by: Michael Sclafani <dm-devel@lists.linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Michael Sclafani <dm-devel@lists.linux.dev> Co-developed-by: Sweet Tea Dorminy <sweettea-kernel@dorminy.me> Signed-off-by: Sweet Tea Dorminy <sweettea-kernel@dorminy.me> Signed-off-by: Matthew Sakai <msakai@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.