Re: [BUG] two raid consistency bugs

Qu Wenruo <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-btrfs
Message-ID <[email protected]>

在 2026/7/15 19:37, Zhang Boyang 写道:
> Hi,
> 
> On 2026/7/15 17:44, Qu Wenruo wrote:
>>> Personally I like the idea of turning metadata trees into merkle 
>>> trees (so I wrote it first). But since you are the maintainer, I will 
>>> let you decide which way is appropriate‌.
>>
>> I'm not the maintainer, I just default to not trust ideas/features 
>> from unproven contributors, especially when the idea/feature is not 
>> simple.
>>
>> Especially considering the increased patches generated by LLMs.
>>
> 
> I understand your concern.
> 
>>
>> So my suggestion is, if you really want to do long-term contributions, 
>> stop coming up with fancy ideas, start from basics like doing proper 
>> fstests runs with various combinations, report real bugs and fix 
>> simple ones by yourself.
>>
>> Earn your name first then consider fancy ideas.
>>
> 
> That's exactly what I'm doing. I'm not requesting devs to fix this bug 
> immediately or implement my fancy idea. I wrote two test cases and hope 
> it will be helpful to btrfs development. It would be better if these two 
> test cases can be merged to test suite.

No, we will not push for test cases without a fix.

There is already a known failure, generic/747, and at least I'm not the 
only one regretting pushing that.

> 
> I even wrote a draft patch to fix the second bug. However, the first bug 
> is not easily solvable. So I had to discuss possible solutions. If 
> possible, I would have written‌ a draft patch for the first bug, too.

This is already what I call fancy ideas.

Anyway, this will mostly just get yourself ignored if you really choose 
to start from fancy projects.
Those long existing problems are still there for a reason.

If you believe you're smarter than everyone else, then go ahead, no one 
is going to make you change your mind.

> 
> 
> Zhang Boyang
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