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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[–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

Cow is an excuse for writing performance, though the read is awful too currently

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    A rather overly simplistic view of filesystem design.

    More complex data structures are harder to optimise for pretty much all operations, but I'd suggest the overwhelmingly most important metric for performance is development time.

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