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Bcachefs To Remove Its Experimental Label In Linux 6.18 - If It's Still In The Kernel (www.phoronix.com)

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[–] InnerScientist@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

From: Kent Overstreet @ 2025-07-28 15:14 UTC

Judgment day has arrived.

Edit:

No noteworthy feature work: we're in hard freeze.

Lots of bugfixes. Assorted user visible changes and fixes: [...]

Nocow writes can now be rebalanced (e.g. background_target, background_compression options)

Repair improvements: we'll now reconstruct missing inodes if we find contents for that inode (more than one or two keys), not just if the inodes btree was damaged: similarly for 'dirent to missing inode'.

These messages don't fill me with confidence, they sound like new features and seem somewhat complicated. Maybe they were already implemented and just broken and now fixed but remembering his track record...

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 9 points 5 days ago

I think it honestly needs to be a separate project. After a few years have passed and new features become less common he can then look to mainline. Right now there is too much development going on.