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Linus Torvalds Begins Expressing Regrets Merging Bcachefs (www.phoronix.com)

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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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[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I'm going to switch from BTRFS at some point, but at this point that's going to be a few years down the line.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Btrfs never really worked out for me (I think default COW doesn't play nice with VM images) and ext4 works great.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You can disable COW for specific files btw

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Ext4 is faster, but I love BTRFS not just because of CoW, but subvolumes as well. You could probably get something similar going with LVFS, but I prefer that to be baked in, hence why I'm waiting for bcachefs, because it'll up the ante with tighter integration, so that might translate to better performance.

Notice my use of the word might. BTRFS performance is not so great.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Ext4 on personal computer and ZFS on my server

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'd consider btrfs if they finally make their raid5/6 implementation stable. I want to work with multiple disks without sacrificing half of my storage.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Btrfs shouldn't be used for raid 5/6

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

@possiblylinux127 @chris Hence their statement "I’d consider btrfs if ...".