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dralley ◴[] No.44466224[source]
I donate to Kent's patreon and I'm very enthusiastic about bcachefs.

However, Kent, if you read this: please just settle down and follow the rules. Quit deliberately antagonizing Linus. The constant drama is incredibly offputting. Don't jeopardize the entire future of bcachefs over the silliest and most temporary concerns.

If you absolutely must argue about some rule or other, then make that argument without having your opening move be to blatantly violate them and then complain when people call you out.

You were the one who wanted into the kernel despite many suggestions that it was too early. That comes with tradeoffs. You need to figure out how to live with that, at least for a year or two. Stop making your self-imposed problems everyone else's problems.

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1. thrtythreeforty ◴[] No.44467347[source]
I did subscribe to his Patreon but I stopped because of this - vote with your wallet and all that. I would happily resubscribe if he can demonstrate he can work within the Linux development process. This isn't the first time this flavor of personality clash has come up.

Kent is absolutely technically capable of, and has the vision to, finally displace ext4, xfs, and zfs with a new filesystem that Does Not Lose Data. To jeopardize that by refusing to work within the well-established structure is madness.