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Kent Overstreet
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If snapshot deletion incorrectly missing some keys and leaves keys for deleted snapshots, that causes a bit of a problem for data move - we can't move an extent for a nonexistent snapshot, because the extent might have to be fragmented, and maintaining correct visibility in child snapshots doesn't work if it doesn't have a snapshot. Previously we'd just skip these keys, but it turns out that causes copygc to spin. So we need runtime self healing, i.e. calling check_key_has_snapshot() from the data move path. Snapshot deletion v2 included sentinal values for deleted snapshot nodes, so this is quite safe. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
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