I am watching the btrfs project with great interest and looking forward to the blessing of the final on-disk format (which I understand is coming soon) and giving it a spin in my test environment. Like so many others I have been disappointed that the very impressive ZFS filesystem isn't available on Linux in any meaningful way and see btrfs as the way around this and ultimately a better choice. Hopefully btrfs has learned from ZFS and can leapfrog it in some areas. This leads me to a question: I have been following this list for a while and have not see anyone mention any sort of regression testing or automated functional test suite being run against btrfs. This would seem to be critically important for something like a filesystem. Does it exist? I have access to a large amount of disk storage and storage systems and would be happy to dedicate a machine with a significant amount of disk in various configurations to do constant functional testing of btrfs. I know you may already such resources since the project is supported by Oracle etc. but I want to do whatever I can to help things along. I'm more of a system administrator than a C coder or filesystem expert so I can't offer code but perhaps I can help in another material way. -- Tracy Reed http://tracyreed.org
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