Re: [BUG] two raid consistency bugs

[Alan Huang <mmpgouride@gmail.com>]

On Jul 15, 2026, at 18:11, Qu Wenruo <quwenruo.btrfs@gmx.com> wrote:
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> 在 2026/7/15 19:37, Zhang Boyang 写道:
>> Hi,
>> On 2026/7/15 17:44, Qu Wenruo wrote:
>>>> Personally I like the idea of turning metadata trees into merkle trees (so I wrote it first). But since you are the maintainer, I will let you decide which way is appropriate‌.
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>>> I'm not the maintainer, I just default to not trust ideas/features from unproven contributors, especially when the idea/feature is not simple.
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>>> Especially considering the increased patches generated by LLMs.
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>> I understand your concern.
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>>> So my suggestion is, if you really want to do long-term contributions, stop coming up with fancy ideas, start from basics like doing proper fstests runs with various combinations, report real bugs and fix simple ones by yourself.
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>>> Earn your name first then consider fancy ideas.
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>> That's exactly what I'm doing. I'm not requesting devs to fix this bug immediately or implement my fancy idea. I wrote two test cases and hope it will be helpful to btrfs development. It would be better if these two test cases can be merged to test suite.
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> No, we will not push for test cases without a fix.
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> There is already a known failure, generic/747, and at least I'm not the only one regretting pushing that.

Then why not delete it ?

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>> I even wrote a draft patch to fix the second bug. However, the first bug is not easily solvable. So I had to discuss possible solutions. If possible, I would have written‌ a draft patch for the first bug, too.
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> This is already what I call fancy ideas.
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> Anyway, this will mostly just get yourself ignored if you really choose to start from fancy projects.
> Those long existing problems are still there for a reason.
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> If you believe you're smarter than everyone else, then go ahead, no one is going to make you change your mind.
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>> Zhang Boyang