Bcachefs Removed from the Mainline Kernel

Re:Bcachefs Removed from the Mainline Kernel by remix2000 on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @10:19AM (#45425808)

Reading the kernel mailing lists wrt/ bcachefs, it looked more like a cattle prod than an olive branch to me… Kent didn't do nothing other maintainers don't do except make one filesystem that doesn't get irrecoverably corrupted on brownout.

I'm just sorry for the guy and perhaps a little bit sorry for myself that I might have to reformat my primary box at some point…

Also unrelated, but Sun was a very open source friendly company with a wide portfolio of programs licensed under GNU licenses, without some of which Linux would still be useless to the general public.

Overall, designing a good filesystem is very hard, so perhaps don't bite the hand that feeds you…?

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Re:Bcachefs Removed from the Mainline Kernel by simlevesque on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @10:36AM (#45426020)

I have no idea if you read the right parts because that's not what happened at all.

The maintainer kept pushing new features at a time when only bugfix are allowed. He also acted like a child when he got asked to follow procedures. Feel sorry for his bad listening and communication abilities.

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Re:Bcachefs Removed from the Mainline Kernel by jacobgkau on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @12:00PM (#45427191)

> The maintainer kept pushing new features at a time when only bugfix are allowed.

The "new features" were recovery features for people hit by bugs. I can see where the ambiguity came from.

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