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Bcachefs may be headed out of the kernel

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anonfordays ◴[04 Jul 25 21:32 UTC] No.44468023[source]▶
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.

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em-bee ◴[04 Jul 25 22:09 UTC] No.44468282[source]▶
several people i know are using btrfs without problems for years now. i use it on half a dozen devices. what's your evidence that it is not trustable?
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1. em-bee ◴[05 Jul 25 08:06 UTC] No.44470963[source]▶
i know it's not appropriate to complain about downvotes, but anonfordays responds to my question with an actual answer ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44468404 ) and more importantly with a link to the btrfs status page ( https://btrfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Status.html ) that i was not aware of (but as a btrfs user should have been) and you all downvote that to death. why? what possible disagreement could you have with that?
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2. anonfordays ◴[05 Jul 25 20:40 UTC] No.44475373[source]▶
I did not down vote you, and my post was flagged or dead:

https://btrfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Status.html

The amount of "mostly OK" and still an "unstable" RAID6 implementation. Not going to trust a file system with "mostly OK" device replace. Anecdotally, you can search the LKML and here for tons of data loss stories.