Re: [BUG] two raid consistency bugs

[Zhang Boyang <zhangboyang.id@gmail.com>]

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.
> 
> I'm not the maintainer, I just default to not trust ideas/features from 
> unproven contributors, especially when the idea/feature is not simple.
> 
> Especially considering the increased patches generated by LLMs.
> 

I understand your concern.

> 
> 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.
> 
> Earn your name first then consider fancy ideas.
> 

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.

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.


Zhang Boyang