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Re:Bcachefs to be removed from mainline Linux kernel by koverstreet on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @12:31PM (#44890606)
No, a lot of bcachefs users are explicitly using it because of data loss, and they needed something more reliable; that's bcachefs's main reason for existing.

Besides that, if you want to make anything truly reliable, you have to prioritize reliability at every step in the process of building it. That means actively supporting it, getting feedback and making sure it's working well, and you can't do that without shipping bugfixes.

Having to ship a DKMS module just so users can get the latest bugfixes would be nutso - that's just not how things are done.

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Re:Bcachefs to be removed from mainline Linux kernel by rastignack on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @02:16PM (#44891920)
Some distributions do release hotfixes before they reach mainline kernel. If you expect end users to compile Linus’ kernel head, why couldn’t they compile your branch though ? They get timely fixes.
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