On 10/06/2011 11:31 AM, Jeff Putney wrote: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Release_early,_release_often
I can appreciate both Jeff's and Andi's positions on this issue. I do wonder why the fsck isn't publicly available as it is as a non-release version, just so people can begin getting their eyes on it and make contributions. I think that would really help with getting a higher quality product in less time, which is a good goal to attempt to achieve. I've only played with btrfs at this point, and I'm mostly waiting for an fsck tool to exist (in a mature form) before using this fine filesystem on any of my systems, so I am interested in seeing the fsck reach maturity as I am very excited about all the features that btrfs offers. That said, I also think that we ought not to complain to Chris when he is doing work that will benefit us all, without any cost to us. We may prefer that he take a different approach in developing this tool, but in the end he is serving us and we ought not to look a gift horse in the mouth, as they say. Chris, I respectfully request that the code you have be placed into a public repository. It is your choice of course, but I believe it would be a good thing for btrfs. However and whenever it is delivered to the community, I am confident that btrfs will be ready for production use very soon. Thanks to you and all the devs for working so hard to bring Linux into the future of filesystems! -- R
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