linux-ext4 - Re: Mentor for a GSoC application wanted (Online ext2/3 filesystem checker)

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Message-ID: <87abjn8rsq.fsf@basil.nowhere.org>
Date:	Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:45:41 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	"Alexey Zaytsev" <alexey.zaytsev@...il.com>
Cc:	"Eric Sandeen" <sandeen@...hat.com>,
	"Theodore Tso" <tytso@....edu>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, "Rik van Riel" <riel@...riel.com>
Subject: Re: Mentor for a GSoC application wanted (Online ext2/3 filesystem checker)

"Alexey Zaytsev" <alexey.zaytsev@...il.com> writes:
>
> How do you tell data from metadata on this level?

You could always change the file system to pass down hints through
the block layer. 

-Andi
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