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Re:Orphaning bcachefs-tools in Debian by sangnoir on Saturday August 31, 2024 @03:58PM (#41411494)
> True that, and yet the kernel has zero issues keeping Btrfs around even though it's been eating people data since

I can imagine scenarios where known failure modes on an "inferior" tool are better than unknown failure modes on a "superior" one.

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Re:Orphaning bcachefs-tools in Debian by koverstreet on Saturday August 31, 2024 @08:35PM (#41413164)
honestly, it's mostly just a matter of trying to give myself the time to work with bugs as people hit them, and stage the rollout. I don't want clueless newbies running it until it's completely bulletproof.
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