Re: Btrfs for mainline

Chris Mason
2009-01-05T13:19:31Z

On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 21:07 +1100, Chris Samuel wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Jan 2009 8:01:04 am Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> > When it's in mainline I suspect people will start using it for that.
>
> Some people don't even wait for that. ;-)
>
> Seriously though, if that is a concern can I suggest taking the btrfsdev route
> and, if you want a real belt and braces approach, perhaps require it to have a
> mandatory mount option specified to successfully mount, maybe "eat_my_data" ?

I think ext4dev made more sense for ext4 because people generally expect
ext* to be stable. Btrfs doesn't quite have the reputation for
stability yet, so I don't feel we need a special -dev name for it.

But, if Andrew/Linus prefer that unstable filesystems are tagged with
-dev, I'm happy to do it.

-chris