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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "linux-btrfs\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Btrfs: initial online fsck support
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 10:48:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m239ipnb7v.fsf@firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E0C4303.1080406@cn.fujitsu.com> (Li Zefan's message of "Thu, 30 Jun 2011 17:33:55 +0800")

Li Zefan <lizf@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

-- 
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only

  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-01 17:48 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 [this message]
2011-07-02 11:47   ` Hubert Kario
2011-07-02 17:04     ` Andi Kleen
2011-07-02 19:06       ` Hubert Kario
2011-07-20 15:06       ` Chris Mason

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