From: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
To: Jeff Putney <jeffrey.putney@gmail.com>
Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>,
linux-btrfs <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Honest timeline for btrfsck
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 08:55:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1318251055-sup-8003@shiny> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+JuuGopTsEWpeW5GnwjR-NuJgUwte6HGvhSTUfm_Wh0itVpdg@mail.gmail.com>
Excerpts from Jeff Putney's message of 2011-10-07 11:58:55 -0400:
>
> The 'specialness' of an fsck tool is highly suspect. Current
> development versions of all the other fsck tools are available in
> their respective repositories, and yet headlines of their eating
> babies are still pretty scarce.
> I'm glad that Linus didn't use your logic when it came to releasing
> the linux kernel. Do you think the entire linux kernel is more like a
> web browser, or a desktop environment?
>
> This smells more like post hoc justification of being territorial over
> a pet project than it does actual reasons for keeping the source a
> state secret of oracle. Unless their is no intention of releasing the
> source, and Oracle intends to keep it a closed source product for
> their own linux distributions alone.
I wish there were bigger forces at play here than me just not having it
finished yet, but that's all there is to it.
Btrfs is GPL, and Oracle is not holding back a massive set of tools around
btrfs. The project has always stood on contributions from a number of
companies and closed tools aren't going to happen.
-chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-10 12:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-03 6:57 Honest timeline for btrfsck Erik Jensen
2011-08-03 9:09 ` Jan Schmidt
2011-08-03 20:53 ` Chris Mason
2011-08-15 14:22 ` Francesco Riosa
2011-08-17 15:19 ` Dave
2011-08-18 1:09 ` Yalonda Gishtaka
2011-08-18 20:50 ` Chris Mason
2011-08-18 21:22 ` Hugo Mills
2011-08-26 0:39 ` Yalonda Gishtaka
2011-08-21 13:58 ` Maciej Marcin Piechotka
2011-08-25 15:06 ` Michael Cronenworth
2011-09-01 19:14 ` Michael Cronenworth
2011-09-01 20:20 ` Hugo Mills
2011-09-01 20:24 ` Michael Cronenworth
2011-09-01 20:34 ` Hugo Mills
2011-09-10 10:09 ` Martin Steigerwald
2011-09-13 18:01 ` Jeff Putney
2011-10-05 6:16 ` Chris Mason
2011-10-05 13:59 ` Jeff Putney
2011-10-05 14:58 ` Chris Mason
2011-10-06 15:31 ` Jeff Putney
2011-10-06 20:30 ` Andi Kleen
2011-10-06 20:33 ` Jeff Mahoney
2011-10-06 20:56 ` Francesco Riosa
2011-10-07 14:50 ` Josef Bacik
2011-10-07 15:22 ` Dave
2011-10-11 21:21 ` Francesco Riosa
2011-10-12 13:53 ` Josef Bacik
2011-10-13 12:57 ` Francesco Riosa
2011-10-13 13:02 ` Josef Bacik
2011-10-06 20:52 ` Randy Barlow
2011-10-06 23:20 ` Yalonda Gishtaka
2011-10-06 23:29 ` Chris Samuel
2011-10-07 4:30 ` Roman Mamedov
2011-10-07 2:25 ` Chester
2011-10-07 19:10 ` Asdo
2011-10-07 19:29 ` cwillu
2011-10-07 20:19 ` Diego Calleja
2011-10-08 21:13 ` Asdo
2011-10-09 1:19 ` Fajar A. Nugraha
2011-10-07 20:50 ` Helmut Hullen
2011-10-10 12:59 ` Chris Mason
2011-10-07 2:50 ` Chris Mason
2011-10-07 4:45 ` Jeff Mahoney
2011-10-07 13:40 ` Jeff Putney
2011-10-07 14:48 ` Josef Bacik
2011-10-07 15:58 ` Jeff Putney
2011-10-07 16:08 ` Josef Bacik
2011-10-07 17:07 ` Jeff Putney
2011-10-07 18:23 ` cwillu
2011-10-07 21:16 ` Jeff Putney
2011-10-10 12:55 ` Chris Mason [this message]
2011-10-13 11:28 ` Chris Samuel
2011-10-13 11:37 ` Hugo Mills
2011-10-07 15:39 ` Mike
2011-10-07 17:27 ` Gour-Gadadhara Dasa
2011-10-12 14:41 ` Martin Steigerwald
2011-10-12 18:57 ` Jeff Putney
2011-10-12 19:53 ` Martin Steigerwald
2011-10-12 22:47 ` Jeff Putney
2011-10-13 5:56 ` Jeff Mahoney
2011-10-13 15:51 ` Jeff Putney
2011-10-17 10:49 ` Chris Samuel
2011-10-31 10:53 ` David Summers
2011-11-30 10:19 ` Clemens Eisserer
2011-12-02 20:05 ` Jeff Putney
2012-01-06 23:03 ` Danny Piccirillo
2011-09-09 23:01 ` Yalonda Gishtaka
2011-09-23 13:51 ` Erik Jensen
2011-09-27 14:42 ` Jeff Putney
2011-09-27 18:00 ` Clemens Eisserer
2011-10-04 21:20 ` Jeff Putney
2012-01-17 15:07 ` David Summers
2012-01-18 1:13 ` Chris Mason
2012-03-28 6:15 ` Danny Piccirillo
2012-03-28 9:36 ` Duncan
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