On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 01:19:21PM +0800, Qu Wenruo wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2018年03月20日 02:44, David Sterba wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 09:05:38AM +0800, Qu Wenruo wrote:
> >> When debuging with "btrfs inspect dump-tree", it's not that handy if we
> >> want to iterate all child tree blocks starting from a specified block.
> >>
> >> -b can only print a single block, while without -b "btrfs inspect 
> >> dump-tree"
> >> will need extra tree roots fulfilled to continue, which is not possible
> >> for some damaged filesystem.
> >>
> >> Add a new option '-f|--follow' to iterate a sub-tree starting from block
> >> specified by '-b|--block', so we would have less limitation.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <w...@suse.com>
> > 
> > I've dropped the shot option for now and updated the changelog. While
> > '-f' is probably a good choice, I'd postpone adding that if we want to
> > use it for other purposes.
> 
> I'm fine with this.
> 
> Just curious if this means we should also double check the short option
> usage or this is just for "-f"?

You don't need to add a short option from the beginning, this can be
added later when we can decide by the usage if it's worth.
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