From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:44406 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756348AbaD1PBV (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Apr 2014 11:01:21 -0400 Message-ID: <535E6D2C.5080404@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 10:01:00 -0500 From: Eric Sandeen MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marc MERLIN , dsterba@suse.cz, Justin Maggard , Daniel Lee , linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, clm@fb.com Subject: Re: Which companies are using Btrfs in production? References: <20140424011834.GN26949@merlins.org> <20140424011952.GO26949@merlins.org> <535912E5.7080106@gmail.com> <20140424231456.GW26949@merlins.org> <20140425144704.GC5988@twin.jikos.cz> <20140425152045.GK13819@merlins.org> In-Reply-To: <20140425152045.GK13819@merlins.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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