[bityard]

> I do feel the author is letting some bugs slide to focus on getting the fs in the kernel

I'm not involved in any of this besides watching from the sidelines. But it seems to me that Kent's main focus right now is clearly getting the filesystem into the kernel so that it can get the testing and bugfixing it needs. To the point that his determination is annoying all of the veteran kernel maintainers. (Who, to be fair, have a right to be conservative on what they accept into the kernel as they have been burned many times in the past by not being conservative enough.) Even though I am sure he has grand ideas for the future, he seems to be happy enough with the current state of things but hasn't been successful in attracting outside help on his own. Which is why he is trying to drum up interest on the LKML.

I don't think it's likely that Kent is letting known bugs slide, as that would be extremely detrimental toward getting his patches merged.