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Bcachefs Goes to "Externally Maintained"

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Volundr ◴[30 Aug 25 17:08 UTC] No.45076237[source]▶
Damn. I was enjoying not having to deal with the fun of ZFS and DKMS, but it seems like now bcachefs will be in the same boat, either dealing with DKMS and occasional breakage or sticking with the kernel version that slowly gets more and more out of date.
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WD-42 ◴[30 Aug 25 18:11 UTC] No.45076818[source]▶
The article says that bcachefs is not being removed from the mainline kernel. This looks like mostly a workaround for Linus and other kernel devs to not have to deal with Kent directly.
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ffsm8 ◴[30 Aug 25 18:58 UTC] No.45077114[source]▶
The three listed options in the OP thread were

* Another kernel Dev takes over management and they tread it as a fork (highly unlikely according to their estimate)

* Kent hires someone to upstream the changes for him and Kent stops complaining wrt when it's getting merged

* Bcachefs gets no maintenance and will likely be removed in the next major release

I do not know him personally, but most interactions I've read online by him sounded grounded and not particularly offensive, so I'm abstaining from making any kind of judgement on it.

But while I have no stake in this, Drama really does seem to follow Kent around for one reason or another. And it's never his fault if you take him by his public statements - which I want to repeat: he sounds very grounded and not offensive to me whatsoever.

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42lux ◴[30 Aug 25 22:28 UTC] No.45078547{3}[source]▶
Grounded? Not offensive?

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wiLE9BkSiq8F-mFW5NOtPzYrt...

https://lore.kernel.org/all/citv2v6f33hoidq75xd2spaqxf7nl5wb...

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1. ffsm8 ◴[30 Aug 25 23:14 UTC] No.45078839{4}[source]▶
The first one is by Linus? And his replies (at least the ones I read) are - to me- less aggressive then the rest of the mails in that chain

The second has one offensive remark:

> Get your head examined. And get the fuck out of here with this shit.

which I thought he admitted was out of line and - said sorry for. Or do I misremember? I admit once again, I'm still completely uninvolved and merely saw it play out on the internet.

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2. yencabulator ◴[31 Aug 25 00:27 UTC] No.45079238[source]▶
If you read his replies downthread from that, Kent seems to be going through a lot of effort to not apologize, in any form, and prefers talking about how other people were mean to him.

I had high hopes for bcachefs. sigh