Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems

First of all, LWN is almost per definition not a forum where end users congregate. Second, I assume Lennart is talking about users in the "early-adopter" category of which developers are implicitly a part and not necessarily someones tech-averse grandmother?

I also happen to think that Lennart is correct in taking the longer view that btfrs needs to be included gradually in the ecosystem if it is ever to become a mature, trusted, default Linux FS.

There will be bumps in the road, sure, that's a given. But Lennart's point that he wants to ease the pain by starting off with storing non-essential data (in the easily replaceable sense) in btfrs while this process is onging, is IMHO both sound and valid.

Others may see it differently, of course.

I don't think that Lennart means that the end users should fix the problems. I assume here that he like every one else that performs large scale distribution understands that the real QA does not start until you get the end users to run your software.

You can perform all the QA you want internally and yet some random user with his random setup and random hardware till find tons of bugs on the first day of use.