Re:Bcachefs Goes to "Externally Maintained"
by rekoil on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @03:29AM
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> Now almost nobody will be able to use it.
Which hurts so much because it truly seems amazing from so many perspectives, and I admire Kents dedication to it. I was extremely excited to make a large bcachefs filesystem, with RAID6-like redundancy, foreground NVMe disks and spinning rust as background storage, and it seemed to be in the near future too, but now it probably won't happen at all which makes me incredibly sad for us all.
You’re very successful at building the file system, but your attempt at shipping it appears to have largely failed. This is a tragic bummer.
Even if working with Linus is hard (and even if he is behaving irrationally), it’s what would’ve allowed you to get bcachefs in hundreds of millions of users’ hands. This seems worthy of a compromise considering all of the work that went into building it. Now almost nobody will be able to use it.