Linus Torvalds Begins Expressing Regrets Merging Bcachefs

Kent developed for like 10 years on his own. He's just having a hard time learning how to play with others, and deal with large priority cycles. He just needs to know that sometime his changes will get pushed to the next cycle.

Can someone say why bcachefs is interesting? Btrfs I can sort of understand. I haven't much kept track of most others.

Bruh, you can't just submit entirely new data structures as "fixes", let alone past the merge window.

It should not be hard at all to grasp that.

I was interested in bcachefs years ago, but Kent seems to keep shooting himself in the foot when it comes to getting any traction with it.

I'm going to switch from BTRFS at some point, but at this point that's going to be a few years down the line.

I love kernel mailing list drama.

I definitely feel bcachefs is much more practical than zfs for home storage, I've used both. I don't use zfs unless it's TrueNAS because of the licensing issues, but bcachefs solves all of that and you can use different sized drives. I look forward to it being stable and glad it's working out. Luckily the only side affect is Linus' regretfulness. 😂

Was considering bcachefs at some point but after seeing this, definitely a no for the foreseeable future. I don’t like surprises in my file systems.

Use ext4. It just works.