From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: Mentor for a GSoC application wanted (Online ext2/3 filesystem checker)
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:45:41 +0200
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Cc: "Eric Sandeen" <sandeen@redhat.com>,
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"Alexey Zaytsev" <alexey.zaytsev@gmail.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