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Linux needs a true answer to ZFS that's not btrfs. Sadly the ship has sailed for btrfs, after 15+ years it's still not something trustable.

Apparently bcachefs won't be the successor. Filesystem development for Linux needs a big shakeup.

1. bombcar ◴[04 Jul 25 22:01 UTC] No.44468201[source]▶

ZFS is good enough for 90% of people who need that so no real money is available for anything new.

Maybe a university could do it.

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2. anonfordays ◴[04 Jul 25 22:03 UTC] No.44468226[source]▶

Indeed, and it's inclusion in Ubuntu is fantastic. It's also showing it's age, 20 years now. Tso, where are you when we need you most!?

3. bombcar ◴[04 Jul 25 22:10 UTC] No.44468295[source]▶

Or someday a file system will somehow piss off Linus and he’ll write one in a weekend or something ;)

4. XorNot ◴[04 Jul 25 22:49 UTC] No.44468588[source]▶

I mean, is it? It's a filesystem and it works. How is it "showing its age"?

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5. ◴[05 Jul 25 16:28 UTC] No.44473792{3}[source]▶

Bcachefs may be headed out of the kernel