Excerpts from Jeff Putney's message of 2011-10-07 11:58:55 -0400: > > The 'specialness' of an fsck tool is highly suspect. Current > development versions of all the other fsck tools are available in > their respective repositories, and yet headlines of their eating > babies are still pretty scarce. > I'm glad that Linus didn't use your logic when it came to releasing > the linux kernel. Do you think the entire linux kernel is more like a > web browser, or a desktop environment? > > This smells more like post hoc justification of being territorial over > a pet project than it does actual reasons for keeping the source a > state secret of oracle. Unless their is no intention of releasing the > source, and Oracle intends to keep it a closed source product for > their own linux distributions alone.
I wish there were bigger forces at play here than me just not having it finished yet, but that's all there is to it. Btrfs is GPL, and Oracle is not holding back a massive set of tools around btrfs. The project has always stood on contributions from a number of companies and closed tools aren't going to happen. -chris -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
