Bcachefs Goes to "Externally Maintained"

Re:Bcachefs Goes to "Externally Maintained" by koverstreet on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @11:00AM (#45182848)

I'm not trying to do this as fast as possible and get it out to every single user as fast as possible

That's tech industry thinking; that is what btrfs did :)

In the long run, slow is fast and wins the race. Being in the kernel would have been great if it grew the development community, but instead the opposite happened - it drove people way.

The important thing is to get it done, with all the reliability and hardening and features that people want. There's no reason it can't go back in later.

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Re:Bcachefs Goes to "Externally Maintained" by rekoil on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @11:52AM (#45183765)

I mean I've read a lot of what you've posted everywhere, and I can't really say I disagree with much of it, it's just a shame it all happened the way it did.

Hope "go back in later" isn't too far down the line, I have 10x8TB spinners, and 4x2TB NVMe disks that I'm looking to move from md-raid + BTRFS to something else, and I really want that to be an in-tree filesystem.

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