Re: Btrfs for mainline

[Roland Dreier]

 > > > I don't disagree, please do keep in mind that I'm not suggesting anyone
 > > > use this in production yet.

 > > When it's in mainline I suspect people will start using it for that.

 > I think the larger question here is where we want development to happen.
 > I'm definitely not pretending that btrfs is perfect, but I strongly
 > believe that it will be a better filesystem if the development moves to
 > mainline where it will attract more eyeballs and more testers.

One possibility would be to mimic ext4 and register the fs as "btrfsdev"
until it's considered stable enough for production.  I agree with the
consensus that we want to use the upstream kernel as a nexus for
coordinating btrfs development, so I don't think it's worth waiting a
release or two to merge something.

 - R.
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