vilanye

All dogs are mammals, but not all mammals are dogs.

This is why I don't use AWS or any "cloud" provider. That is not 100% true. I have 110 GB or so of personal data backed up on Glacier. The bill is 6 cents a month, and they obviously don't charge my card.

It may take longer to start, but owning all your servers is cheaper in the long run.

At the very least, don't lock yourself into one provider. Spread out any services you use.

More than one company has screwed itself over permanently by tying itself to a single service. At the end of the day, it is the extremely poor decision to follow the trend of locking oneself into a single company that dooms it.

You would think people would have learned the lesson to avoid lock-in by now. It is absolutely Darwinian at this point.

This is why complaints about Linus are very wrong.

It is Kent that is in the wrong here.

If Linus was even half of the bad guy that people whine about, bcachefs would already be out of the mainline.

It is coming because Kent seems incapable of learning how to work inside an organization.

Imagine Kent's attitude on a corporate dev team. He wouldn't last a month.

He is deflecting the obligations that having a project in the kernel mainline puts on him.

Linus' reaction is very appropriate because Kent is breaking the mainline and wrecking the kernel development cycle. It is more than appropriate to pull bcachefs out of the mainline.

There is a rather large difference between "runs slower" and "runs horribly".

What you did is try to move the goal posts.