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If API is in flux, how about not exposing it for now?

If API is in flux, how about not exposing it for now?

Posted Jan 8, 2009 17:11 UTC (Thu) by nas (subscriber, #17)
In reply to: If API is in flux, how about not exposing it for now? by proski
Parent article: Btrfs aims for the mainline

Why can't those ioctls be marked as experimental? It's very difficult to design the perfect API up front. Also, I don't see any need to rename the filesystem. Just merge the darn thing already and mark it experimental. I've got over 1 TB in my desktop machine (not really a whole lot of space nowdays) and I'm willing to devote some space to testing. People who compile their own kernels should be able to deal with filesystem format changes.


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