linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] f2fs: checkpoint disabling

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Date:   Fri, 10 Aug 2018 16:40:53 +0800
From:   Chao Yu <yuchao0@...wei.com>
To:     Daniel Rosenberg <drosen@...gle.com>,
        Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        <linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>
CC:     <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>, <kernel-team@...roid.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] f2fs: checkpoint disabling

Hi Daniel,

On 2018/8/8 7:48, Daniel Rosenberg wrote:
> This adds a lightweight non-persistent snapshotting scheme to f2fs.
> 
> To use, mount with the option checkpoint=disable, and to return to
> normal operation, remount with checkpoint=enable. If the filesystem
> is shut down before remounting with checkpoint=enable, it will revert
> back to its apparent state when it was first mounted with
> checkpoint=disable. This is useful for situations where you wish to be
> able to roll back the state of the disk in case of some critical
> failure.

When filesystem is full, statfs shown abnormally as below:

/dev/zram0       2095104 -17177769548 17179864652    - /mnt/f2fs

I guess it's related to this patch, could you have a look at this?

Thanks,