Re: [PATCH] Proposal for more detail in scrub doc

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On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 03:14:37PM +0100, Andrea Gelmini wrote:
> Wise words from Qu:
> https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-btrfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg82557.html
> ---
>  Documentation/btrfs-scrub.asciidoc | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/btrfs-scrub.asciidoc b/Documentation/btrfs-scrub.asciidoc
> index 4c49269..1fc085c 100644
> --- a/Documentation/btrfs-scrub.asciidoc
> +++ b/Documentation/btrfs-scrub.asciidoc
> @@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ and metadata blocks from all devices and verify checksums. Automatically repair
>  corrupted blocks if there's a correct copy available.
>  
>  NOTE: Scrub is not a filesystem checker (fsck) and does not verify nor repair
> -structural damage in the filesystem.
> +structural damage in the filesystem. It only checks csum of data and tree blocks,
> +it doesn't ensure the content of tree blocks are OK.

Thanks for the suggestion, I've enhanced the note in the docs so it
fills in the details you've been missing.



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