Re: Which companies are using Btrfs in production?

[Marc MERLIN <marc@merlins.org>]

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?

But eh, I'm just one guy and and it's just my opinion :)

How about we leave that decision with Chris Mason?

Marc
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