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Re:Btrfs/ZFS/bcachefs under workloads classic benchmarks skip on Sunday September 20, 2026 @02:19AM (#49772979)
It's not as battle-tested like ZFS with 15+ years of field usage, but it's good enough for me and other users.

There's a NAS appliance called NASty and it shares publicly usage stats: https://nasty-telemetry.pages.dev/ Those numbers are NASty alone. There are more users on other systems.

Re:Btrfs/ZFS/bcachefs under workloads classic benchmarks skip on Sunday September 20, 2026 @02:13AM (#49772941)
You can use NASty as NAS appliance. It's based on NixOS, offers flexibility, atomic upgrades and all bells and whistles of bcachefs.
Re:A NAS appliance built on bcachefs on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @10:03AM (#47675580)
Without upstreaming it wouldn't get traction it have now. I agree that things could be managed better to keep it in the upstream but without upstraming we would be in deeper woods than we are now and still a lot of more users is needed to get even more traction and make it even more bulletproof with real-world testing.
Re:A NAS appliance built on bcachefs on Monday April 06, 2026 @12:47PM (#47663400)
I'm using my filesystem since Dec 2024 and it's closer to 100TiB than 10TiB now. I once had an issue that was quickly solved by Kent and now it's stable for me.

Yes, I regret all that drama that I've witnessed. But I'm happy it's way past that now. Kernel can be developed in its pace and bcachefs develops in its own pace.