> > Just open the nodes with O_EXCL and you'll get all the checking for > > free. Also make sure that for a pure, read-only checks instead of a > > repair to allow running on at least a read-only mounted filesystem. > > Thanks for working on this patch Andi. > > In this case O_EXCL is going to be more accurate just because the > mounted check doesn't cover every disk in the FS. For now btrfsck > doesn't really give consistent results even readonly on a mounted > filesystem. We should prevent it with a message just to prevent > confusion. Thanks for the reply. I'll do this as soon as I understand the code that is affected by those changes (I'm still in the learning phase and stepping through the code). Cheers, Andi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
