> The two big features of btrfs are self-healing and online fsck, those have to
Are they? > be implemented in kernel space. Why? There have been online fscks in user space in the past, e.g. the various schemes using LVM snapshots for ext* and other related work on the BSD FFS. I don't see any principal reason why it couldn't be done for btrfs either. A good fsck is quite complex and you are unlikely to want all that code in kernel space. -Andi -- 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