Bcachefs may be headed out of the kernel

It's such a shame. We don't quite trust btrfs (but it's probably fine!), we don't quite trust the ZFS license and the fact that it is not in the Kernel (but it's mostly fine!), so Bcachefs would be so nice to have. A modern FS that one uses on their Linux root (or anywhere), as confidently as one does ext4.

But what prevents it ultimately? This ... situation. It makes me sad.

I didn't follow the details but I know that Linus is a reasonable person, and Kent is very thorough and delivering quality. But even if Linus was too much on the conservative-side here (but who's to judge??), please Kent, just fall in line. The alternative is nothing. Go have a beer with Linus.

I just want an intree filesystem that does metadata and data checksumming, compression, encryption, and volumes/snapshots. Bcachefs was the one that ticked all of these. Such a shame to see it turn out this way.