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1. blop · 1789845579 · focus · HN ↗

   I think the reviews should also include the social aspect of these filesystems...

   There is and have been many promising and exciting FS to replace the old boring ones, but for storage you not only want to avoid technical issues but also maintainer(s) drama...

   1. koverstreet · 1789847441 · focus · HN ↗

      Why do people keep bringing up drama?

      The community infighting has sucked, but that's a thing that matters primarily for maintainers.

      I think most users just want something that works.

      1. blop · 1789855817 · focus · HN ↗

         drama matters because most users don't want to have their favourite FS randomly removed from the kernel unexpectedly after some OS update :)

         That said I certainly hope that one day the technical advantage of bcachefs will be so overwhelming that maybe the decision to remove it will be overturned. And if big vendors make it their default FS the bus factor will disappear (even if unofficially you'd still be the sole maintainer, but no one cares about that in the enterprise world...)

         1. throw0101a · 1789903011 · focus · HN ↗

            > drama matters because most users don't want to have their favourite FS randomly removed from the kernel unexpectedly after some OS update :)

            Jokes on you then: my favourite FS can't be "randomly removed from the kernel unexpectedly after some OS update" because it never made it in — ZFS. :)

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