On Friday 01 of July 2011 19:48:36 Andi Kleen wrote: > Li Zefan <l...@cn.fujitsu.com> 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. -- Hubert Kario QBS - Quality Business Software 02-656 Warszawa, ul. Ksawerów 30/85 tel. +48 (22) 646-61-51, 646-74-24 www.qbs.com.pl -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
