Re: btrfs-progs and btrfs(8) inconsistencies

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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.)


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Chris Murphy
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