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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: 0.546s | 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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1. Nextgrid ◴[04 Jul 25 20:05 UTC] No.44467457[source]▶
What's so bad about it? Windows to this day doesn't have FOSS drivers as standard and despite that is pretty successful. In practice, as long as a driver works it's fine for the vast majority of users, and you can always disassemble and binary-patch if really needed.

(it's not obvious that having to occasionally disassemble/patch closed-source drivers is worse than the collective effort wasted trying to get every single thing in the kernel and keep it up to date).