On Wed, 2013-01-23 at 12:08 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: Mistakenly left this paragraph incomplete, completion follows:
> I understand that btrfs is a Different Way Of Doing Things, but I don't > think it flies to tell people 'yeah, the tools you've relied on for > simple info on filesystems for years don't work any more, learn this > whole new set of tools'. There should at least be an effort to make very > standard tools return information that's as close as possible to what > the user wanted. This is particularly important in the context of 'make > it the default': right now we can make a reasonable assumption that > people who pick to install with btrfs are actively interested in it and > willing to learn the Right Way to interact with it, but by making it the > default, we'd be ...causing people who aren't particularly interested in btrfs to use it, people who probably would be unhappy if the standard tools they'd been using for years or decades suddenly started reporting what is effectively nonsense. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
