Bcachefs Goes to "Externally Maintained"

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qalmakka ◴[31 Aug 25 04:26 UTC] No.45080377[source]▶

The whole situation is moronic at best. Linux needs a decent modern filesystem in tree. ZFS would easily be it, but unfortunately Sun decided back in the '00s to fuck Linux because they wanted to push Solaris instead. Little they knew ZFS ended up being FreeBSD top feature for years.

Btrfs is constantly eating people data, it's a bad joke nowadays. Right now on Linux you're basically forced to constantly deal with out of tree ZFS or accept that thinly provisioned XFS over LVM2 will inevitably cause you to lose data.

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icar ◴[31 Aug 25 08:59 UTC] No.45081632[source]▶

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I know it's not the same, but close enough for me: lvm + xfs works wonders and it's rock solid.

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1. debazel ◴[31 Aug 25 09:27 UTC] No.45081795[source]▶

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I would love to use xfs on my NAS setup but no checksums is a deal breaker. Checksums have saved me multiple times where I've been able to either repair files with parity or restore from backups.

Without checksums I would have overwritten my backup data and lost a ton of files because the drives were reported that everything was OK for months while writing corrupt files.

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