Filipe Manana posted on Fri, 15 Jan 2016 09:19:28 +0000 as excerpted: >> Yes, test driven development is very nice, but there is also problem, >> especially for btrfs, like btrfs/047 which needs btrfs send >> --stream-version support. > > Yes, this one was a special case in that around 2 years ago it seemed > the functionality was going to be merged, but it ended up not being > merged due to reasons not known to me (no reasons pointed in the mailing > list nor in private). AFAIK/IIRC, the reason as I understood it is that ideally Chris Mason wants to do just one more stream version bump, which means being /very/ sure it includes anything that has come up as needed in intervening development. There's a few things agreed to be missing in the current stream version, yes, but it's usable as-is in the near term, and before that bump is done, everything else related needs to be in a mature enough development state that we can be reasonably sure nothing else is going to come up as still missing, at least for a couple years after the stream version bump. And without a second stream version to try, a --stream-version option isn't particularly testable, so it was judged to be too early to add it as an option. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
