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Bcachefs may be headed out of the kernel

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144 points ksec | 5 comments | 04 Jul 25 13:32 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
1. baggy_trough ◴[04 Jul 25 17:18 UTC] No.44466287[source]▶
No matter how good the code is, Overstreet's behavior and the apparent bus factor of 1 leave me reluctant to investigate this technology.
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2. dsp_person ◴[04 Jul 25 17:45 UTC] No.44466477[source]▶
Curious about this process. Can anyone submit patches to bcachefs and Kent is just the only one doing it? Is there a community with multiple contributors hacking on the features, or just Kent? If not, what could he do to grow this? And how does a single person receiving patreon donations affect the ability of a project like this to get passed bus factor of 1?
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3. nolist_policy ◴[04 Jul 25 18:02 UTC] No.44466612[source]▶
Generally you need a maintainer for your subsystem who sends pull requests to Linus.
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5. koverstreet ◴[04 Jul 25 18:52 UTC] No.44466963[source]▶
I take patches from quite a few people. If the patch looks good, I'll generally apply it.

And I encourage anyone who wants to contribute to join the IRC channel. It's not a one man show, I work with a lot of people there.