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Bcachefs Goes to "Externally Maintained"

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214 points ksec | 1 comments | 30 Aug 25 13:07 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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LeoPanthera ◴[30 Aug 25 17:28 UTC] No.45076431[source]▶
It's orphaned in Debian as well, but I'm not sure what significant advantages it has over btrfs, which is very stable these days.
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betaby ◴[30 Aug 25 17:47 UTC] No.45076586[source]▶
btrfs was unusable in multi disk setup for kernels 6.1 and older. Didn't try since then. How's stable btrs today in such setups?

Also see https://www.phoronix.com/news/Josef-Bacik-Leaves-Meta

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1. turtletontine ◴[30 Aug 25 18:38 UTC] No.45076978[source]▶
I’ve been running btrfs on a little home Debian NAS for over a year now. I have no complaints - it’s been working smoothly, doing exactly what I want. I have a heterogeneous set of probably 6 discs, >20TB total, no problems.

*caveat: I’m using RAID 10, not a parity RAID. It could have problems with parity RAID. So? If you really really want RAID 5, then just use md to make your RAID 5 device and put btrfs on top.