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The Ongoing BcacheFS Filesystem Stability Controversy (hackaday.com)
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[–] 31 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but everybody considers bcachefs to still be in alpha.

Only a complete idiot would use an alpha stage filesystem in production and then whine about bugs and data corruption.

I think this post smells of clickbait.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    BcacheFS seems to have been released around ~2019 and it's still alpha?

    One thing you don't want to fuck around with is your file system. It's one area of computing where conservatism is paramount.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago*

    I think a filesystem is the kind of thing I'd expect to stay in alpha or beta a really long time 😅 I'm not the most technical linux user thought so maybe that is a long time, I dunno

    But like Wayland took ages to be usable. I wonder how long btrfs took to get out of unusable early stages...

    Edit: I didn't see that the dev had said its production ready.... I don't really buy that lol 😅

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    The lead developer certainly doesn't. He maintains that it's got several systems in production.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Oh, wow look at that. Last time I checked it was still ~"for testing purposes only, do not use in production".

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    • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Is this the same as BtrFS?

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    [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    really reinforces the notion that BcacheFS is at best an experimental Alpha-level filesystem implementation and should probably not be used with important data or systems.

    Yes, that's why it's hidden behind an expérimental flag, and the developer himself says it's not quite ready yet to remove the flag.

    So I don't understand what's so controversial about this.

    The only controversy I'm aware of is Linus rejecting somes patches because they were submitted late in the release cycle, and the develeper didn't follow the proper review and testing process. This is more of a process/human relation issue, and seems to be resolved as Linus is accepting his patches again.

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