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Bcachefs may be headed out of the kernel

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144 points ksec | 1 comments | 04 Jul 25 13:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.322s | source
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charcircuit ◴[04 Jul 25 17:11 UTC] No.44466214[source]▶
If Linux would add a stable kernel module API this wouldn't be a huge a problem and it would be easy for bcachefs to ship as a kernel module with his own independent release schedule.
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homebrewer ◴[04 Jul 25 17:17 UTC] No.44466273[source]▶
It would also have a lot less FOSS drivers, neither we nor FreeBSD (which is often invoked in these complaints) would have amdgpu for example.
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charcircuit ◴[04 Jul 25 17:24 UTC] No.44466334[source]▶
I would actually posture that making it easier to make drivers would actually have the opposite effect and result in more FOSS drivers.

>FreeBSD (which is often invoked in these complaints) would have amdgpu for example.

In such a hypothetical FreeBSD could reimplement the stable API of Linux.

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1. throw0101d ◴[04 Jul 25 17:43 UTC] No.44466468[source]▶
> In such a hypothetical FreeBSD could reimplement the stable API of Linux.

Like it does with the userland API of Linux, which is stable:

* https://wiki.freebsd.org/Linuxulator