Comment 8 for bug 1016438

Now that Ubuntu 12.10 is released, would it be possible to backport btrfs-tools 0.19+20120328-7ubuntu1 to 12.04 LTS? The current version of btrfs-tools which shipped with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS is version 0.19+20100601-3ubuntu3, and is much older then the version of Btrfs included with the Kernel. Because of this version mismatch, I believe that btrfs-tools does not support features which are present in the filesystem. In addition, many changes have been made to btrfs-tools since June 2010 (A fsck tool, for example).

It would be great to have a better version of Btrfs included in a LTS version of Ubuntu)

To users, 'Btrfs' means both the filesystem and the Btrfs tools used to support the filesystem. I fear that users who try Btrfs on this Ubuntu LTS will be disappointed due to the number of problems present with btrfs-tools 0.19+20100601-3ubuntu3, and that will hurt the perception of Btrfs overall.