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Re:Btrfs Allocator Hints by BlimpSpike on Friday July 11, 2025 @05:03PM (#44536760)
I hadn't heard of bcachefs, but I looked it up and apparently Linus just removed it from the kernel source tree last month for non-technical reasons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bcachefs#History

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Re:Btrfs Allocator Hints by koverstreet on Friday July 11, 2025 @05:52PM (#44537127)
He hasn't, yet, but it's anyone's guess what's he's going to do.

Regardless, development isn't going to stop, we may just have to switch to shipping as a DKMS module. And considering the issues we've had with getting bugfixes out that might have been the better way all along.

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