Re: Which companies are using Btrfs in production?

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>]

On 4/25/14, 10:20 AM, Marc MERLIN wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 04:47:04PM +0200, David Sterba wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 04:14:56PM -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote:
>>>>> Netgear uses BTRFS as the filesystem in their refreshed ReadyNAS line.
>>>>> They apparently use Oracle's linux distro so I assume they're relying on
>>>>> them to do most of the heavy lifting as far as support BTRFS and
>>>>> backporting goes since they're still on 3.0! They also have raid5/6
>>>>> support so they are probably running BTRFS on top of md.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yes, and any contributions you see coming from me so far, come from
>>>> NETGEAR.  I've been using my gmail account because I can't make our
>>>
>>> Thanks. 
>>> https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Contributors
>>> Updated :)
>>
>> There are lots of contributors with the same small amout of patches
>> contributed and are not listed there.  This is first time I hear about
>> Netgear being a contributor and it looks strange to see that name among
>> the major contributors.
>>
>> If there's demand to list all the minor contributors, then let's add a
>> separate section, otherwise I'm going to remove the entry.
> 
> Mmmh. So I'm not Jon Corbet who has all those fancy honed scripts + non
> trivial time he spends doing this by hand.
> 
> That said, my goal was not to say which company gave the most
> contributions and try and rank them.
> Honestly, right now any company that is using btrfs and contributing to
> it is a great thing in my book.
> I'm not even a fan of counting number of lines or frequency of patches.
> How do you compare someone sending easy cleanup patches vs someone who
> spent a month tracking down a file corruption problem no one could find
> nor fix, and sends a 3 line patch to fix it in the end?

Just for the record, I certainly didn't mean that my git patch-counting
example was the be-all and end-all of "contribution accounting" - it's
just one metric of many; not meant to be inclusive, but might help to avoid
missing people or companies who have contributed in this particular way.

-Eric