Re: [GIT PULL] bcachefs fixes for 6.11-rc5

Nathan Owens <ndowens08@xxxxxxxxx> · Fri, 06 Sep 2024 07:50:46 +0000

Will say both Linus and Kent has their points and reasoning, but I must 
ask, Kent please stick with the guidelines of submitting fixes, 
features, etc. I would like that Bcachefs to stay in the kernel and see 
how well Bcachefs comes along in the future and when it has your 
features and ideas. One day I would like to maybe switch from BTRFS to 
Bcachefs when it gets more features and some of the things I would like 
to be able to do, like restore from snapshot and eventually boot to 
snapshots to restore a messed up system. If it gets taken out of the 
tree, less people will know about it, nor likely take the trouble of 
compiling a kernel for Bcachefs.

This comment is not bash either Linus or you Kent, but just a thought in 
hopes that more people will possibly switch to it and encourage 
production keeps happening as well.

On 8/23/24 10:10 PM, Kent Overstreet wrote:
On Sat, Aug 24, 2024 at 10:57:55AM GMT, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Sat, 24 Aug 2024 at 10:48, K
ent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Sure, which is why I'm not sending you anything here that isn't a fix
for a real issue.
Kent, bugs happen.
I _know_.

Look, filesystem development is as high stakes as it gets. Normal kernel
development, you fuck up - you crash the machine, you lose some work,
you reboot, people are annoyed but generally it's ok.

In filesystem land, you can corrupt data and not find out about it until
weeks later, or _worse_. I've got stories to give people literal
nightmares. Hell, that stuff has fueled my own nightmares for years. You
know how much grey my beard has now?

Which is why I have spent many years of my life building a codebase and
development process where I can work productively where I can not just
catch but recover from pretty much any fuckup imaginable.

Because peace of mind is priceless...

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