Re:Orphaning bcachefs-tools in Debian
by ants_everywhere on Saturday August 31, 2024 @12:35PM
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Yeah I see where you're coming from. By the way, I only heard of bcachefs yesterday and I watched a great video where you were presenting about it. I'm excited about the file system and it's super cool to hear from you!
Re:Orphaning bcachefs-tools in Debian
by koverstreet on Saturday August 31, 2024 @01:35PM
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Likewise!
They Kent. I love your work and I have succesfully used bcachefs in my main workstation since 6.7. I also happily donate monthly in patreon, which I do rarely if ever.
Hope you don't get too much into trouble with Linus. I do not want to see you or the project get into the wrong side of the old guard...
Re:Orphaning bcachefs-tools in Debian
by steve-rambo-fan on Saturday August 31, 2024 @03:36PM
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I second this. Please keep pushing through and don't let the peanut gallery get to you. bcachefs is our only realistic chance to bring our filesystem game into the 21st century, given that the little hope we might have had in Oracle has not been realized.
Who's the "old guard" - Linus Torvalds?
> bcachefs is still experimental, so stuff like this should still be somewhat expected.
I really think you need to realign your expectations here. The Linux kernel is in a different place now than "back in the day" and you are not Linus Torvalds.
That PR would have been better off had it been split into multiple ones and timed differently.
I included the rcu_pending and vfs inode rhashtable conversion because I was getting user reports that it fixed issues that were seriously affecting system usability, and because they were algorithmically simple and well tested.
Back in the day, on multiple occasions Linus and others were rewriting core mm code in RC kernels; bcachefs is still experimental, so stuff like this should still be somewhat expected.