On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 2:54 PM, Moviuro <moviuro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > I should have done this a long time ago, so here goes. > > Btrfs is certainly the best FS out there but btrfs(8) is a pain to use in > scripts. That is, it talks way too much, exposes unparseable outputs and > has inconsistent behavior. > > I strongly believe that the CLI may use a complete revamp, that is: think > of the needed/wanted output. I actually ran into this frustrating behavior > while writing butter (https://github.com/moviuro/butter). What about interfacing with libbtrfs? There's also libblockdev-btrfs, and storaged-btrfs (both are not upstream, but may benefit from a strong libbtrfs if they use it.) -- Chris Murphy -- 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
