←back to thread

Bcachefs Goes to "Externally Maintained"

(lwn.net)
222 points ksec | 1 comments | 30 Aug 25 13:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
Show context
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.

replies(4): >>45076793 #>>45076833 #>>45078150 #>>45080011 #
ofrzeta ◴[30 Aug 25 18:14 UTC] No.45076833[source]▶
Suse Linux Enterprise still uses Btrfs as the Root-FS, so it can't be that bad, right? What is Chris Mason actually doing these days? I did some googling and only found out that he was working on a tool called "rsched".
replies(4): >>45077496 #>>45078503 #>>45082115 #>>45089747 #
1. xelxebar ◴[01 Sep 25 05:32 UTC] No.45089747[source]▶
I've used btrfs for 5-ish years in the most mundane, default setup possible. However, in that time, I've had three instances of corruption across three different drives, all resulting in complete loss of the filesystem. Two of these were simply due to hard power failures, and another due to a flaky cpu.

AFAIU, btrfs effectively absolves itself of responsibility in these cases, claiming the issue is buggy drive firmware.