Btrfs Changes Rejected For The Linux 3.17 Kernel

[0xBADCODE]

Reduced patchset has made it to 3.17 before -rc1,

Somewhat compacted version of this patch set (i.e. fixes of nasty issues rather than less significant stuff) has actually made it into 3.17-rc1.

Just looking into GIT commits log:

commit e64df3ebe8262c8203d1fe4f541e0241c3112c01
Merge: 53b95d6 8d875f9
Author: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Date:   Sat Aug 16 09:06:55 2014 -0600

    Merge branch 'for-linus2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfs
    
    Pull btrfs updates from Chris Mason:
     "These are all fixes I'd like to get out to a broader audience.
    
      The biggest of the bunch is Mark's quota fix, which is also in the
      SUSE kernel, and makes our subvolume quotas dramatically more
      accurate.
    
      I've been running xfstests with these against your current git
      overnight, but I'm queueing up longer tests as well"
    
    * 'for-linus2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfs:
      btrfs: disable strict file flushes for renames and truncates
      Btrfs: fix csum tree corruption, duplicate and outdated checksums
      Btrfs: Fix memory corruption by ulist_add_merge() on 32bit arch
      Btrfs: fix compressed write corruption on enospc
      btrfs: correctly handle return from ulist_add
      btrfs: qgroup: account shared subtrees during snapshot delete
      Btrfs: read lock extent buffer while walking backrefs
      Btrfs: __btrfs_mod_ref should always use no_quota
      btrfs: adjust statfs calculations according to raid profiles

And speaking of butter replacing ext4... in fact I use btrfs on some non-critical systems and it "just works" for simple cases. Yet it provides nice things like snapshots and recent versions got fairly good performance as well, at least in more or less common use cases.

[LLStarks]

Poor Butters.

He'll never be ready to replace ext4.

[ua=42]

I know I shouldn't respond to your trolling, but did you read what Chris Mason wrote on the mailing list? Most of the proposed pull will still land in 3.17.x and Chris agreed with Linus' decision...

Finnaly, someone on topic. So the fixes are likely to go in 3.17. Now I just need to learn if these are for fixing serious problems with btrfs or not.

[DanL]

If you submit late, too bad for you the MAN is traveling. You are not free suckers. hahaha

I know I shouldn't respond to your trolling, but did you read what Chris Mason wrote on the mailing list? Most of the proposed pull will still land in 3.17.x and Chris agreed with Linus' decision...

Hi Linus,
This did get rebased this week (two days ago), but I've been running it
through tests for some time. It was delayed by my own schedule problems
(vacation and others) that made it very difficult for me to have it
ready early in the window.

Aside from a small number of cleanup patches, these are all fixes. I'm
happy to pull out the cleanups and focus on the fixes.

[DanL]

blah blah blah

Please put more thought/effort into your trolling.

[Falcon1]

Yes freedom

If Linus starts to become (to)unreasonable someone is free to Fork and start his/her own branch.

Distro's are free to take the (collected)patches from Chris and back port them to their kernel of choice.

Example: A Closed source vendor has patches which you need. He'll tell you to wait for the next release and upgrade without giving you a timeline. The vendor will not backport because it's bad for sales on the new version. A bac kport also invests time/money in a product the vendor wants to drop anyway. How's that for freedom!

[Jedibeeftrix]

Because he doesn't call the shots. If you don't like what he does, you take the code and do whatever you want with it.

That's the point of OSS.

i see we are not entirely free of trolls on phoronix, despite the joyous absence of lonestar!

[smitty3268]

You call it free. Yay free beer. You say it's more than free beer man, it's Freedom!

How can it be Freedom I ask if one man calls the shots. If you submit late, too bad for you the MAN is traveling.

You are not free suckers. hahaha

Because he doesn't call the shots. If you don't like what he does, you take the code and do whatever you want with it.

That's the point of OSS.

[kresh]

Opensourse, meh

You call it free. Yay free beer. You say it's more than free beer man, it's Freedom!

How can it be Freedom I ask if one man calls the shots. If you submit late, too bad for you the MAN is traveling.

You are not free suckers. hahaha

[Jedibeeftrix]

indeed, kinda hoping 3.17 will make opensuse 13.2, and would be nice to have a load of bug fixes for btrfs in there.