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Linus Torvalds Begins Expressing Regrets Merging Bcachefs (www.phoronix.com)
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There's been some Friday night kernel drama on the Linux kernel mailing list... Linus Torvalds has expressed regrets for merging the Bcachefs file-system and an ensuing back-and-forth between the file-system maintainer.

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[–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Bcachefs has all of this. And it’s supposed to be faster than ZFS and btrfs. In a few years it can really be the golden Linux filesystem recommended for everybody

ngl, the number of mainline Linux filesystems I've heard this about. ext2, ext3, btrfs, reiserfs, ...

tbh I don't even know why I should care. I understand all the features you mentioned and why they would be good, but i don't have them today, and I'm fine. Any problem extant in the current filesystems is a problem I've already solved, or I wouldn't be using Linux. Maybe someday, the filesystem will make new installations 10% better, but rn I don't care.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    It's a filesystem that supports all of these features (and in combination):

    • snapshotting
    • error correction
    • per-file or per-directory "transparently compress this"
    • per-file of per-directory "transparently back this up"

    If that is meaningless to you, that's fine, but it sure as hell looks good to me. You can just stick with ext3 - it's rock solid.

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