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Bcachefs Goes to "Externally Maintained"

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betaby ◴[30 Aug 25 17:49 UTC] No.45076609[source]▶
The sad part, that despite the years of the development BTRS never reached the parity with ZFS. And yesterday's news "Josef Bacik who is a long-time Btrfs developer and active co-maintainer alongside David Sterba is leaving Meta. Additionally, he's also stepping back from Linux kernel development as his primary job." see https://www.phoronix.com/news/Josef-Bacik-Leaves-Meta

There is no 'modern' ZFS-like fs in Linux nowadays.

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ibgeek ◴[30 Aug 25 18:08 UTC] No.45076793[source]▶
This isn’t BTRFS
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zozbot234 ◴[30 Aug 25 19:18 UTC] No.45077235[source]▶
Does btrfs still eat your data if you try to use its included RAID featureset? Does it still break in a major way if you're close to running out of disk space? What I'm seeing is that most major Linux distributions still default to non-btrfs options for their default install, generally ext4.
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1. skibbityboop ◴[30 Aug 25 19:33 UTC] No.45077351[source]▶
Anecdotal but btrfs is the only filesystem I've lost data with (and it wasn't in a RAID configuration). That combined with the btrfs tools being the most aggressively bad management utilities out there* ensure that I'm staying with ext4/xfs/zfs for now.

*Coming from the extremely well thought out and documented zfs utilities to btrfs will have you wondering wtf fairly frequently while you learn your way around.