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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Alexey Zaytsev <alexey.zaytsev@gmail.com>,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Subject: Re: Mentor for a GSoC application wanted (Online ext2/3 filesystem checker)
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:43:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080421144332.GA21028@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080421023342.GC9700@mit.edu>

> snaphot was taken.  Even if it has been remounted read-only at this
> point, this gets really dicey.  Consider that with certain types of
> corruption, if the filesystem continues to get modified, the
> corruption can get worse.

I see, but perhaps you could do that on at least some common
type of corruptions and only give up in the extreme cases?

Mind you I don't have a good feeling what common and uncommon 
types are.

> 
> > Or perhaps just tell the kernel which objects is suspicious and
> > should be EIOed.
> 
> Yeah; you could do that, as long as it's not a guarantee that all of
> the objects which were suspicious were found.  It would also be

Ok to do the 100% job you probably need metadata checksums and always
validate on initial read.

-Andi


  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-21 14:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <f19298770804180720w2e72b821j95b709c1dd1b1c25@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found] ` <20080419012952.GE25797@mit.edu>
2008-04-19  9:44   ` Mentor for a GSoC application wanted (Online ext2/3 filesystem checker) Alexey Zaytsev
2008-04-19 18:56     ` Theodore Tso
2008-04-19 19:07       ` Eric Sandeen
2008-04-19 22:04         ` Theodore Tso
2008-04-20  1:24           ` Eric Sandeen
2008-04-20 23:30           ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-20 23:42             ` Jamie Lokier
2008-04-21  8:01               ` Andi Kleen
     [not found]               ` <20080421080111.GD14446@one.firstfloor.org>
2008-04-21 11:51                 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-04-21 17:29                 ` Ricardo M. Correia
2008-04-21 17:40                   ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-21 18:27                     ` Ricardo M. Correia
2008-04-22 14:48                     ` Jamie Lokier
2008-04-21 18:15                 ` Ric Wheeler
2008-04-21 18:25                   ` Eric Sandeen
2008-04-21 18:44                     ` Ric Wheeler
2008-04-21 18:58                       ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-04-21 19:11                         ` Ric Wheeler
2008-04-21  0:27         ` Alexey Zaytsev
2008-04-21  9:45           ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-22 16:54         ` Peter Teoh
2008-04-22 17:02           ` Eric Sandeen
2008-04-22 23:37             ` Andreas Dilger
2008-04-23  0:52               ` Eric Sandeen
     [not found]           ` <480E4950.1090300@oracle.com>
     [not found]             ` <804dabb00804221633g1f61029dh7b27737134fc0b7a@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]               ` <480E7954.9090408@oracle.com>
2008-04-23  1:02                 ` Peter Teoh
2008-04-20 23:37       ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-21  2:33         ` Theodore Tso
2008-04-21 14:43           ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-04-21  0:23       ` Alexey Zaytsev
2008-04-21 12:53         ` Theodore Tso

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