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Bcachefs may be headed out of the kernel
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It's FOSS ☛ New Linux Kernel Drama: Torvalds Drops Bcachefs Support After Clash
The process of Linux kernel development is prone to arguments, strong opinions, and the occasional dramatic standoff. Despite that, development has progressed steadily over the decades, driven by a diverse community of contributors who are as passionate as they are principled.
And every once in a while, one of these internal debates spills into public view. This time, it's Bcachefs, the COW filesystem that pitches itself as a filesystem that "doesn't eat your data".
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LWN ☛ Bcachefs may be headed out of the kernel
The history of the bcachefs filesystem in the kernel has been turbulent, most recently with Linus Torvalds refusing a pull request for the 6.16-rc3 release. Torvalds has now pulled the code in question, but also said: [...]
Linuxiac:
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Torvalds Drops Bcachefs from Linux 6.17 Amid Maintainer Dispute
Bcachefs is a promising copy‑on‑write Linux filesystem that supports encryption, snapshots, compression, and more. It is seen as a modern rival to Btrfs and ZFS and was initially merged into kernel 6.7, but was always tagged as experimental.
However, getting it into the kernel hasn’t exactly been smooth sailing. Over time, it became clear there were stability issues, with frequent bugfixes and conflicting commits. It even got to the point where Linus openly admitted, midway through last year, that he regretted ever allowing support for the file system to be added to the kernel.
In addition, the ongoing disagreements between Bcachefs lead developer Kent Overstreet and Linus Torvalds have recently escalated.
Linux Mag:
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Linux Kernel 6.17 Drops bcachefs
After a clash over some late fixes and disagreements between bcachefs's lead developer and Linus Torvalds, bachefs is out.