Hi all,
In the process to relicense btrfs-progs to LGPLv2.1[1], we have 40 of
114 approvals so far. I have sent mass-emails to everyone with more than
1 commit, and am now sending individual emails down the list to people I
haven't heard from.
(I'm waiting to tackle the single-commit people
Hi all,
We want to relicense btrfs-progs, using the LGPLv2.1 instead of GPLv2.
We can then build btrfs-progs code as a shared library, libbtrfs, and
this library can be used by other code -- GPLv3+, BSD/Apache, and
non-free, without causing the GPLv2 to apply to the other code.
This will all
Hi everybody,
I'd like it to be possible to have a library that configures btrfs
directly instead of using the cmdline tools. (I think Mark Fasheh and
David Sterba have already done some work here.)
However, as it stands, the kernel's include/uapi/linux/btrfs.h and
btrfs-progs are GPLv2, whi
On 02/25/2013 10:25 PM, Suman C wrote:
Thanks for the sparse file idea, I am actually using that solution
already. I am not sure if its the best way, however.
(Sorry to respond to such an old thread.)
Hi Suman,
I think zvol-like functionality would be very nice for btrfs to have. It
would be
On 02/27/2013 01:34 PM, Zach Brown wrote:
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 04:19:57PM +0100, David Sterba wrote:
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 01:08:46PM +, Hugo Mills wrote:
You may want to look at the btrfs-progs libify patches (posted to
this list in the last couple of months), which try to pull ou
