Re: [RFC PATCH] btrfs: qgroup: Deprecate the ability to manually inherit rfer/excl numbers

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On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 11:36:58AM -0800, Omar Sandoval wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 09:19:10PM +0200, Nikolay Borisov wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On 19.12.2017 21:01, Omar Sandoval wrote:
> > > My only objection is that we shouldn't rename the field names in the
> > > UAPI header. Let's just add a comment that the two counters are ignored.
> > > Besides that,
> > 
> > Why is that?
> 
> We don't know if anyone is including the UAPI header and referring to
> these fields for whatever reason. A quick Google search doesn't turn up
> anything, but it has been there forever so I think we should err on the
> side of not breaking the API.

At least snapper sets these:
https://github.com/openSUSE/snapper/blob/3c126c92bf2bd25a952800b2efb18754148ac227/snapper/BtrfsUtils.cc#L147

They get it from the libbtrfs header, but we might some day sync it to
the UAPI header. So it's not completely theoretical :)
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