On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 07:10:17PM +0200, David Sterba wrote: > One thing that looks as a show stopper is the fact that the fake data > blocks that would become the metadata blocks would lie out of any > metadata group. I'm not familiar with the chunk rebuilder, but this > seems as a simple check to do when it tries to guess the block group > layout from what it finds on disk.
There's one more hurdle that looks tough to overcome: each metadata block records the chunk tree UUID, and this piece of information is not available to the user through ioctls, sysfs or ordinary data reads. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
