Btrfs progs v6.6.3
btrfs-progs: update CHANGES for 6.6.3
btrfs-progs: scrub limit: add option to apply the limit to all devices
Userspace utilities to manage btrfs filesystems. License: GPLv2.
Btrfs is a copy on write (COW) filesystem for Linux aimed at implementing advanced features while focusing on fault tolerance, repair and easy administration.
This repository hosts following utilities and also documentation:
See INSTALL for build instructions, tests/README.md for testing information and ci/README.md for CI information.
The major version releases are time-based and follow the cycle of the linux kernel releases. The cycle usually takes 2 months. A minor version releases may happen in the meantime if there are bug fixes or minor useful improvements queued.
The release tags are signed with a GPG key ID F2B4 1200 C54E FB30 380C 1756 C565 D5F9 D76D 583B
,
release tarballs are hosted at kernel.org.
See file CHANGES or changelogs on RTD.
Releases with changelog are also published at Github release page.
For each release there are static binaries of btrfs
and btrfs.box
provided.
These can be used in rescue environments and are built for x86_64
architecture (with maximum backward compatibility), inside the Github Actions
workflow.
The btrfs.box
is an all-in-one tool in the busybox
style, the functionality is determined by the binary names (either symlink,
hradlink or a file copy).
The btrfs-progs of version X.Y declare support of kernel features of the same version. New progs on old kernel are expected to work, limited only by features provided by the kernel.
Build is supported on the GNU C library as the primary target, and on the musl libc.
The supported compilers are gcc (minimal version 4.8) and clang (minimal version 3.4).
Build tests are done on several distributions, see Github actions workflow.
There are several ways, each has its own specifics and audience that can give feedback or work on a fix. The following list is sorted in the order of preference:
The development takes place in the mailing list (*linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org*) or at Github (issues, pull requests). Changes should be split to logical parts if possible, documentation may be included in the same patch as to code or separately.
The development model of btrfs-progs shares a lot with the kernel model. The
git log --oneline
for some inspirationThe pull requests on Github may be used for code or documentation contributions. There are basic build checks enabled in the Github actions CI for pull requests. The status can be checked at the workflow page.
[skip ci]
to the changelogSource code coding style and preferences follow the
kernel coding style.
You can find the editor settings in .editorconfig
and use the
EditorConfig plugin to let your editor use that,
or update your editor settings manually.
The documentation for writing and running tests can be found in tests/ and continuous integration/container images in ci/.
Development branches are tested by Github Action workflows.
Code coverage provided by codecov.io can be found here.
Documentation fixes or updates do not need much explanation so sticking to the code rules in the previous section is not necessary. GitHub pull requests are OK, patches could be sent to me directly and not required to be also in the mailing list. Pointing out typos via IRC also works, although might get accidentally lost in the noise.
Documentation sources are written in RST and built by sphinx.
Build dependencies are listed in INSTALL. Implementation of checksum/hash functions is provided by copies of the respective sources to avoid adding dependencies that would make deployments in rescue or limited environments harder. The implementations are portable and there are optimized versions for some architectures. Optionally it's possible to use libgcrypt, libsodium, libkcapi, Botan or OpenSSL implementations.
The builtin implemtations uses the following sources: CRC32C, XXHASH, SHA256, BLAKE2.
Some other code is borrowed from kernel, eg. the raid5 tables or data structure implementation (list, rb-tree).