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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Hubert Kario <hka@qbs.com.pl>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	Btrfs mailing list <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Btrfs: initial online fsck support
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 19:04:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110702170443.GI23059@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201107021347.42281.hka@qbs.com.pl>

> 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

  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-02 17:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-30  9:33 [PATCH] Btrfs: initial online fsck support Li Zefan
2011-07-01 17:48 ` Andi Kleen
2011-07-02 11:47   ` Hubert Kario
2011-07-02 17:04     ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2011-07-02 19:06       ` Hubert Kario
2011-07-20 15:06       ` Chris Mason

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