Re: [PATCH] Btrfs: initial online fsck support

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On Friday 01 of July 2011 19:48:36 Andi Kleen wrote:
> Li Zefan <lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > This is an initial version of online fsck. What it does is:
> > 
> > - check the dir item and dir index pointing to a file.
> > - check the structure of extents of a file.
> > 
> > As furthur work, we should consider:
> > 
> > - fix but not only check the structure of a file.
> > - verify the extent allocation tree on the fly.
> 
> It's scary to have a fsck in kernel space. Is there no way to do
> this from user space?
> 
> -Andi

There will be a userspace fsck (Chris Mason is working on it ATM).

The two big features of btrfs are self-healing and online fsck, those have to 
be implemented in kernel space.
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