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  1. skerit · · focus · HN ↗
    Oh, so bcachefs is doing pretty well.
    1. tarruda · · focus · HN ↗
      Except for the fact that the developer has sabotaged the project into being removed from mainline?
      1. irusensei · · focus · HN ↗
        That might be the best thing happened to the project since now development can happen at its own pace without the clicky bait influencers.

        In fact they delivered the erasure coding for parity raid back in march this year.

        The thing is that as soon as you seriously give a chance to Bcachefs you see how good it is. I can only tell you that mixing different device tiers and having a per-file/directory replication setting is a god send specially in these times where storage costs more than gold.

        1. tarruda · · focus · HN ↗
          > The thing is that as soon as you seriously give a chance to Bcachefs you see how good it is.

          I'm pretty sure Bcachefs is amazing and better than Btrfs. I also think Zfs is amazing and better than Btrfs. Even so, I still use Btrfs because I know it is guaranteed to always be present on any Linux without any effort on my part.

          > That might be the best thing happened to the project since now development can happen at its own pace without the clicky bait influencers.

          A better approach might have been to just paused mainline merging instead of forcing being kicked out?

          Eg "Hey Linus, Bcachefs is still in early development and I need to merge changes in a pace that is not compatible with Linux development process. So I'm going to pause for a while now and once it reaches maintenance status I will focus on submitting patches in a healthy pace that you can digest".

          1. irusensei · · focus · HN ↗
            I think in a perfect world they should had put someone in between to mediate and curate patches while providing DKMS for urgent patches.

            As for BTRFS I think its also pretty good. Its just that I have the impression its development is guided by the needs of its sponsors and sadly for us META doesn't need RAID5.

            1. koverstreet · · focus · HN ↗
              Meta doesn't have anyone working on btrfs anymore, it appears to be two guys at SuSE and drive bys.
              1. nolist_policy · · focus · HN ↗
                Not true, Boris Burkov from Meta works on btrfs. And two people from WDC.
                1. koverstreet · · focus · HN ↗
                  Within the last year? I think bcachefs is going to be overtaking btrfs soon on active developers, from the trends I saw in the commit logs
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