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The Ongoing BcacheFS Filesystem Stability Controversy
(hackaday.com)
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this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2025
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but everybody considers bcachefs to still be in alpha.
Only a complete idiot would use an alpha stage filesystem in production and then whine about bugs and data corruption.
I think this post smells of clickbait.
BcacheFS seems to have been released around ~2019 and it's still alpha?
One thing you don't want to fuck around with is your file system. It's one area of computing where conservatism is paramount.
I think a filesystem is the kind of thing I'd expect to stay in alpha or beta a really long time ๐ I'm not the most technical linux user thought so maybe that is a long time, I dunno
But like Wayland took ages to be usable. I wonder how long btrfs took to get out of unusable early stages...
Edit: I didn't see that the dev had said its production ready.... I don't really buy that lol ๐
The lead developer certainly doesn't. He maintains that it's got several systems in production.
Oh, wow look at that. Last time I checked it was still ~"for testing purposes only, do not use in production".
And that's Linus' doing, mostly. Kent insists it is production ready. I wouldn't touch it with a 10-foot pole, at least for now.
Yep, me neither. I'm looking forward to see how it compares with zfs and btrfs when it is ready, but for now I wouldn't consider it for anything.
It is, a little. There's no information in the text, so if there is any it's in the embedded YouTube video, and I don't watch talking heads when the information could be an article.