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Bcachefs Goes to "Externally Maintained"

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222 points ksec | 1 comments | 30 Aug 25 13:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.199s | source
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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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goneri ◴[31 Aug 25 04:44 UTC] No.45080442[source]▶
Btrfs is NOT constantly eating people data. You have nothing to back this statement.

It's widely used and the default filesystem of several distributions. Most of the problems are like for the other filesystem: caused by the hardware.

I've been using it for more than 10 years without any problem and enjoy the experience. And like for any filesystem, I backup my data frequently (with btrbk, thanks for asking).

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1. yjftsjthsd-h ◴[31 Aug 25 15:06 UTC] No.45083738[source]▶
> Btrfs is NOT constantly eating people data. You have nothing to back this statement.

Constantly may be a strong word, but there is a long line of people sharing tales of woe. It's good that it works for you, but that's not a universal experience.

> It's widely used and the default filesystem of several distributions.

As a former user, that's horrifying.

> Most of the problems are like for the other filesystem: caused by the hardware.

The whole point of btrfs over (say) ext4 is that it's supposed to hold up when things don't work.