On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 08:43:51AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 03:35:32PM -0400, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: > > As far as what the kernel is involved with, the easy way to check is if it's > > operating on a mounted filesystem or not. If it only operates on mounted > > filesystems, it almost certainly goes through the kernel, if it only > > operates on unmounted filesystems, it's almost certainly done in userspace > > (except dev scan and technically fi show). > > Then btrfs check is a userspace-only matter, as it wants the fs > unmounted, and it is irrelevant that I did btrfs check from a rescue > system with an older kernel, 3.16 if I recall correctly. And it also means that I should not try btrfs balance from grml because btrfs balance goes through the kernel code. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 6224 1600402 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 6224 1600421 -- 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
