From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Btrfs: initial online fsck support
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 10:48:36 -0700
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To: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
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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

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