On Wed, 07 Oct 2015 22:03:58 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: >On Wed, 2015-10-07 at 16:49 +0100, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: >> >> I have considered including it, and had it staged locally. However >> with recent btrfs/kernels I did not manage to successfully convert >> ext4 from initramfs =( >> >> > >> > If not initramfs, but can you enable a static version of it? >> > >> >> That could also work as well. I'll check if I can build it like that. > > What do you think is upstream's stand on conversion from ext to btrfs ? > If it was intentional as Roman Lebedev pointed, then I think it may be > better to just drop the btrfs-convert binary.
As of btrfs-progs-4.4, they're "doing preparatory work for btrfs-convert rewrite" ( https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Changelog#btrfs-progs_4.4_.28Jan_2016.29 ). I agree that it's probably best to drop the unsafe binary we currently ship; earlier this year I updated the Debian btrfs wiki to warn against using it, because of data-loss level bugs mentioned on the btrfs mailing list. Once the rewrite is complete and people have tested it we can always add it back. I've been working on a rename of btrfs-tools to btrfs-progs for some time, and my sponsor would like to upload it in the next few days. Please let me know if you'd like me to drop btrfs-convert from this package. Cheers, Nicholas
