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There's been some Friday night kernel drama on the Linux kernel mailing list... Linus Torvalds has expressed regrets for merging the Bcachefs file-system and an ensuing back-and-forth between the file-system maintainer.

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[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 40 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I was interested in bcachefs years ago, but Kent seems to keep shooting himself in the foot when it comes to getting any traction with it.

[–] bastion@feddit.nl 14 points 3 months ago

It's not as bad as it seems. He just doesn't know how valuable working with the provided structure is yet. A lot of innovative thinkers are used to questioning, bending, and tinkering with the rules. He's just still learning how necessary the existing structure is.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think he will learn to integrate with the Linux core team over time.

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

I hope so.

It looks really promising for home users. At this point I've moved to zfs because of proxmox though, so it isn't as relevant to me as it once was.