xfs_healer
xfs_healer
Posted Jan 26, 2026 16:57 UTC (Mon) by koverstreet (subscriber, #4296)In reply to: xfs_healer by zhaan
Parent article: Filesystem medley: EROFS, NTFS, and XFS
The actual repair code is in kernel, the userspace code is just a driver - it's not reaching around the kernel code and doing its own thing.
So yes, all the normal filesystem locking applies.