On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:39:29 -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote: > instead of renaming & keeping the btrfsctl.c copy
There is a new momentum to improve the Btrfs-progs quality :) IMO, one step is to get rid of the legacy tools and sources. It wastes time to maintain them and these old tools cause confusion. btrfsctl.c, btrfs-vol.c and btrfs-show.c are not needed anymore. Please correct me if there are plans to use these old tools in future Linux distributions. The "btrfs" tool replaces the legacy "btrfsctl", "btrfs-vol" and "btrfs-show" tools. Below, the usage text of the old tools is quoted. All these tasks are also offered in the "btrfs" tool, and this tool is the newer one. Some time ago I sent a patch to remove these legacy tools from the default build <http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org/msg16919.html>. We should also remove the sources. Any objections against this? If we don't have btrfsctl.c anymore, we don't need to worry about open_file_or_dir() in that file. We could either leave Anand's patch as it is and afterwards remove btrfsctl.c, or remove the file first and then the open_file_or_dir() patch can be shrunken. usage: btrfsctl [ -d file|dir] [ -s snap_name subvol|tree ] [-r size] [-A device] [-a] [-c] [-D dir .] -d filename: defragments one file -d directory: defragments the entire Btree -s snap_name dir: creates a new snapshot of dir -S subvol_name dir: creates a new subvolume -r [+-]size[gkm]: resize the FS by size amount -A device: scans the device file for a Btrfs filesystem -a: scans all devices for Btrfs filesystems -c: forces a single FS sync -D: delete snapshot -m [tree id] directory: set the default mounted subvolume to the [tree id] or the directory usage: btrfs-vol [options] mount_point -a device add one device -b balance chunks across all devices -r device remove one device usage: btrfs-show [search label or device] -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
